[PATCH V2 0/3] Add vchi_queue_kernel_message and vchi_queue_user_message

[Michael Zoran]

On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 10:09 -0800, Michael Zoran wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-25 at 18:39 +0100, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> > > Michael Zoran <mzoran at crowfest.net> hat am 25. Januar 2017 um
> > > 17:53
> > > geschrieben:
> > Looking at the TODO shows 3 candidates: vc_mem, bcm2835-camera,
> > VCSM
> > 
> > I suggest to pick one first, because the kernel developer for
> > bcm2835
> > are limited. So my favorite would be bcm2835-camera, since it's the
> > only driver with a practical application for a non-developer.
> > 
> > @Michael: Does this make sense to you?
> 
> This isn't my decision.  
> 
> But I'm a personal fan of bcm2835-audio.  I know it isn't on the TODO
> list, but it was the reason I started down this path in the first
> place.
> 
> Eric is working on a replacement for it, but I'm not sure when he
> will
> have it available.
> 

So I'm looking at the camera driver and it would again be starting with
a very large driver.  It's 7000+ lines of code.

On the other hand, the audio driver is only 2500 lines and much of it
could be simplified.

Eric's hdmi audio driver is certainly the better way to go, but it has
many issues that need to be addressed as well.  Ranging from legal(the
encoding for HDMI audio is an ancient closed standard even through an
open source solution is available and it's a very simple standard)
ranging to architectural such as you can't have floating point in
kernel drivers for something as simple as the volume control.

I would probably even be willing to submit the initial version of the
audio driver to staging and yes I would cleanup most of the
checkpatch.pl issues on the initial patch.

But if people want to hit the nuke button on vc04_services, that's
certainly an option and it's not my decision.  I'm not the owner of the
kernel source tree...