Re: Missing MIPI IPU6 camera driver for Intel Alder Lake laptops

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

On (22/08/11 17:30), Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 06:08:55PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 05:02:40PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 04:54:53PM +0300, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > > For the time being, I agree with your recommendation to not buy these
> > > > devices if you care about camera support.
> > > 
> > > I second this, don't buy these devices if the vendor is not willing to
> > > get their drivers upstreamed properly.
> > 
> > "Not willing" may be a bit too harsh here. I wouldn't just blame Intel
> > for not upstreaming a driver if it turns out that the V4L2 API isn't a
> > good match and we have no proposal to provide an alternative.
> 
> Did they propose an alternative?  From what I saw here they didn't even
> attempt it, or did I miss that?

The plan here is to land CAM kernel API first and then switch IPU
(driver and user-space) to it so that upstreaming for Intel will
be easier.