We tried to create MT9V034 driver for the OMAP4/Panda board . But the ISP is based on a smaller ARM core and there were virtually no documentation how it works. So to change the pandaboard board compatible file in the kernel to accommodate the camera board was completely impossible. I suppose that the new ISP (depending what is the processor) could be even more difficult to implement as a software. Is it so? Somebody to answer? Hristo
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 8:40 AM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Hristo Laftchiev <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 8:37 PM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [beagleboard] A new camera board for the Beagleboeard XM - > Vifff-024 > > I think that the problem with every processor is to manage also the Image > Signal Processor, which is > the entry port of the video stream toward the main processor memory space. > With the new processor > (compatible with Cortex A-15 but which one? - omap5 or ?) one must redo > the drivers for the ISP > and also change the boaromap3beagle.c file in the Linux kernel with > appropriate settings > for the camera. I hope also that the camera port will be also pin to pin > compatible with the cameras > for Beagleboard XM. So, let me resume: > 1. Beagle Bone can have camera attached, but not through the natural ISP > of the processor. > 2. BBB - I must see. > 3. BB-XM is for now the ideal choice from the Beagle family of boards to > attach a camera. > 4. BB-A15 is in the future and we do not know how much time will take to > write the appropriate drivers for the ISP > of the unknown processor. For the BB-XM (DM3730 is OMAP3 architecture), > before the drivers became really well functioning > it took 2,5 years of development. The right persons to ask about future > camera compatibility of this are J. Kridner or L. Pinchart. > Because the software support for the ISP of the processor is decisive for > the appearance of working camera boards for it. > So for now, we stay with BB-XM, which works, it has enough processor power > + DSP and is very stable. > > You raise some good points. Beagleboard-X15 is based on DRA7 architecture > which is the next generation after OMAP5 targeted at the Automotive > industry (at least that is my understanding). One issue with DM3730 is that > there is no SysLink equivalent (RPMSG/REMOTEPROC) that works in Linux > Kernels after V3.4, which means you cannot use the DSP unless you implement > RPC and Remote DSP load yourself. RPMSG/REMOTEPROC is already working on > Beagleboard-X15 and TI expect to push this into mainline early 2015. From > what Robert Nelson tells us, Beagleboard-X15 kernel V3.18 is mostly in > mainline and there are very few patches. I’ll wait for Robert to respond as > to the status of X15 camera support. > > Regards, > John > > > Cheers, > Hristo > > > On Friday, December 19, 2014 12:11:08 AM UTC+2, john3909 wrote: >> >> >> On 12/18/14, 1:58 PM, "Rick Mann" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> >> On Dec 18, 2014, at 13:56 , John Syn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Better to wait for the BeagleBoard-X15 which will have the camera >> >> interface. >> > >> >Oh, goodness, how long do I have to wait for that beauty? >> Scheduled for Feb, 2015 >> > >> >-- >> >Rick Mann >> >[email protected] >> > >> > >> >-- >> >For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> >--- >> >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >"BeagleBoard" group. >> >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> >email to [email protected]. >> >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/Nme0TdvgX4I/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Hristo Laftchiev Institute of Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy-Sofia "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
