Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] staging: vc04_services: bcm2835-isp support

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi Laurent,

[add Ivan & Peter]

Am 15.11.23 um 20:59 schrieb Laurent Pinchart:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 04:02:52PM -0500, Umang Jain wrote:
> > This series aims to upport bcm2835-isp from the RPi kernel.
> > It is developed on top of staging-next which comprises many
> > VC04 changes for it's de-staging. Hence, the merge of this
> > driver is targeted when VC04 is de-staged completely (which I
> > have been pushing), but it can be helped getting reviewed meanwhile.
> > Hence, the reason for posting the series.
>
> Related question, what do people think about dropping the legacy
> firmware-based bcm2385-camera driver once this gets merged ?
> firmware-based camera operation is deprecated by Raspberry Pi, and
> doesn't work on the Pi 5
i don't remember exactly, but wasn't the bcm2835-camera required for Pi
Camera V1.3?

At the end cannot speak for the users. AFAIK OpenSuSE and Fedora use the
driver.