Re: framebuffer overlay
"Dongsoo, Nathaniel Kim" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure,gmane.comp.video.video4linux |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ryan Raasch<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to write a driver for a camera using the new soc_camera in the > mainline kernel the output is the overlay framebuffer (pxa270) and i would > like to use the overlay output feature of v4l2 framework, but the > framebuffer does not expose itself as a output device (not yet). > Hi Ryan, As far as I know the framebuffer of PXA2 even PXA3 can't be categorized in a overlay device. To be able to get used as overlay device by camera interface, I think there should be a direct FIFO between camera and framebuffer which means there is no need to copy memory from camera to fb. But unfortunately PXA architecture is not supporting this kind of feature. Cheers, Nate > Are there any fb that i can use as an example for this? > > From looking at the driver code, it seems like the generic code of fbmem.c > needs a v4l2 device. Is this in the right ballpark? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > -- = DongSoo, Nathaniel Kim Engineer Mobile S/W Platform Lab. Digital Media & Communications R&D Centre Samsung Electronics CO., LTD. e-mail : [email protected] [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html