Re: [PATCH v11 0/9] Add StarFive Camera Subsystem driver

From: Jack Zhu
Date: Tue Nov 07 2023 - 04:29:18 EST




On 2023/11/7 16:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 04:05:11PM +0800, Jack Zhu wrote:
>> > Also, while you wait, why not just finish off the last 3 items on the
>> > TODO list which would make your code not be required to go into the
>> > staging portion of the tree at all? You've had a few weeks now, what is
>> > preventing that from happening, and when will that work actually be
>> > done?
>> >
>>
>> One of my colleagues is doing related development, but he also has other
>> projects at the same time, so he cannot devote all his efforts to this
>> development. And we expect to use libcamera, which may take some time.
>
> So that means there is no real plan at all to get this out of the
> staging directory? If so, why should we take it at all as obviously
> this means that the code is now abandoned?
>

Hi Greg,

It's not like that, we won't give up on this code. We just want to make
development easier using incremental development. Our developers are already
working on development, but I can't give you an accurate time. There should
be a preliminary version in about 3 months.

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Regards,

Jack Zhu