Re: [PATCH v16 00/22] media: i2c: add Maxim GMSL2/3 serializer and deserializer drivers

[Niklas Söderlund]

Hello,

Thanks for  your continued effort pushing this work forward!

On 2026-08-31 16:21:19 +0300, Dumitru Ceclan via B4 Relay wrote:
> This series adds new drivers for multiple Maxim GMSL2 and GMSL3 devices,
> replacing the few GMSL2 drivers already in upstream, and introducing a
> common framework that can be used to implement such GMSL chips, which
> avoids code duplication while also adding support for previously
> unsupported features.
> 
> While the normally acceptable and polite way would be to extend the
> current mainline drivers, the choice was made here to add a totally new
> set of drivers. The current drivers support only a small subset of the
> possible features, and only a few devices, so the end result after
> extending them would in any case be essentially fully rewritten, new
> drivers.
> 
> This series depends on support for internal pads, for which a patch has
> been added.

It also depends on enabling the streams API right? At least I need to do 
so to be able to use the TPG. Out of curiosity do you know the plan to 
enable it by default upstream?

> The drivers have been tested on the following hardware combinations, 
> but
> further testing is welcome to ensure no / minimal breakage:
> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX9296A + 2xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96714 + 1xMAX96717 + 1xIMX219
> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96716A + 2xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96712 + 4xMAX96717 + 4xIMX219
> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96724 + 4xMAX96717 + 4xIMX219
> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96792A + 1xMAX96793 + 1xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
> * Raspberry Pi 5 + MAX96792A + 2xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219
> * Renesas V4H + MAX96712 + 2xMAX96717 + 2xIMX219

I tested the TPG on Renesas V3U + MAX96712 and it works as just as good 
or better then the staging driver this work makes obsolete.

-- 
Kind Regards,
Niklas Söderlund