2008/7/7 Erik Andrén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> 2008/7/7 Sam Liddicott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> I've been following this mailing list generally and observing progress.
>>
>> Because I'm spread too thin to contribute technically, I started a
>> bounty page at:
>> http://www.liddicott.com/~sam/?p=76<http://www.liddicott.com/%7Esam/?p=76>
>>
>> After a year, this has reached about $770 dollars for the developers.
>>
>> Please could I ask one or a few of the developers who would have an
>> interest in claiming the bounty to identify themselves (in response or
>> via private email or as a blog comment) and give a short statement on
>> what work they think there is left to do.
>
>
> I'm interested in claiming (and sharing) the bounty once the kernel driver
> hits mainline.
> I don't think it's going to be a m560x driver but a m5602 and a m5603 as
> they differ too greatly from each other.
> Thus you may need to explicitly state if this bounty is for the m5602 or
> m5603 or to be shared between them.
>
> I myself have only been working with the m5602 but the situation is quite
> complicated due to that there are no datasheets or information on how the
> m5602 usb bridge works.
> Couple this together with that there are at least three different sensors
> (Omnivision ov9650, Samsung S5K83A, Micron MT9V111) used together with the
> chip, all requiring different initializations and where there are no
> datasheets for the s5k83a. Additionally different notebook vendors (MSI,
> Acer, Packard Bell, Acer, Clevo) use the same bridge and sensor but with
> different initializations in some unknown scheme.
>
> Finally, the windows driver is braindead only setting one pixelformat
> (Bayer-encoding) with a fixed resolution (VGA) making it almost impossible
> to reverse-engineer the windows driver all operations like resizing and
> color recovery seems to be made in software.
>
> To answer your question:
> "When will it hit mainline?", my answer is that I don't know.
> I intend to try to sort out all the different variations in sensors and
> vendor specific implementations and commit something that at least is giving
> some kind of basic support for all known sensors.
> But the reality is that without any datasheet or a contact inside ALi
> wanting to answer our questions the driver is always going to be limited in
> respect to picture quality and pixel format support.
>
> A small comfort is that most of all new webcam chips designed nowadays
> adhear to the usb video class specification and should work out of the box
> with the uvc driver so the next laptop you buy will probably have
> webcam-support out of the box.
>
> Regards,
> Erik
>
>
Oh,
and while I'm the topic I want to give a shoutout to all users answering my
silly queries and gladly sending me usb snoops upon my request.
Without your contribution we wouldn't have come this far!
Thanks,
Erik
>
>
>>
>>
>> I intend to combine the statements of work and post it on the bounty
>> page as an update.
>>
>> If key developers don't have an interest in the bounty, please also let
>> me know.
>>
>> Sam
>>
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