[PATCH 4/5] media: staging: Drop bcm2835-camera driver

[Peter Robinson]

Hey Stefan,

Thanks for adding me to the cc:

> >> Am 27.08.25 um 08:24 schrieb Jai Luthra:
> >>> The bcm2835-camera driver is replaced by the V4L2 bcm2835-unicam driver
> >>> that is already upstream. So drop it from staging.
> >> AFAIK the old Raspberry Pi Camera V1 isn't supported by V4L2
> >> bcm2835-unicam. Personally i'm fine with this, but this must be clear in
> >> the commit message.Did you already talked to distributions like Redhat &
> >> OpenSuSE about this step?
> > As Dave mentioned, the OV5647 should work with V4L2. I don't have a sensor
> > with me, but I can order one and try to get it working with the upstream
> > kernel separate from this series.
> >
> > I did test the V2 camera module (IMX219) with my series applied on top of
> > upstream kernel, and capture worked fine with bcm2835-unicam, so I don't
> > believe V1 camera module should be an issue.
> I was in holidays the last days, so I better reply to this thread /
> context even there is a V2 out yet.
>
> Yes, this explains the technical part behind the motivation and I'm fine
> with this to speed up unstaging.
> But my point was "Are the users informed about this step?". So I hope
> the extended Cc should do this job at least for popular distributions.

I was vaguely aware because I randomly read the lists.

The last I looked there's still some missing bits stopping the unicam
driver from working out of the box upstream. What is the status of
that delta?

Overall I'm fine with the old camera driver going, it never worked
particularly well upstream on Fedora so I suspect overall even with
the missing bits on the unicam driver I don't think we're actually
worse off, but it would be nice to get the last bits in place so the
camera actually finally works upstream

Peter