[Gta04-owner] Camera

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 12:18 +0200, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 24.07.2012 um 10:57 schrieb Kevin Hremeviuc:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am using the 3.2.14 kernel and am wondering if I can test out the camera (I installed it a couple of weeks ago but have only gotten round to playing with it now)?
> 
> I don't know if anyone has tried to integrate the driver into any 3.x kernel.
> 
> The 2.6.32 kernel has a driver that partially works. I have added
> * board file(s)
> * initialization
> * reworked the I2C code
> * added more register setting parameters so that the HSYNC and VSYNC frequencies are ok
> 
> But unfortunately there is no image arriving. Either green or black/white noise.
> This may be a bug in the other drivers which may not program the CAM interface
> correctly (although this was copied from the BeagleBoard XM kernels where the
> camera module works).
> 
> Or the camera parameter settings are still not optimal and e.g. the gain is wrong
> or the AGC is driving in the wrong direction.
> 
> This was the latest commit:
> 
> http://git.goldelico.com/?p=gta04-kernel.git;a=commit;h=812264333b2509211b4cd2d8420ec07ba15b6222
> 
> If you want to work on this, please feel free to ask for further experiences and
> details (there are too many to write them down here).
what command did you try to get an image?
Because I fear that interacting with media-controller is required(I
already did it for the n900 and it was kind of complicated).

Denis.