[libcamera-devel] [virtio-dev] Re: Fwd: Qemu Support for Virtio Video V4L2 driver

[Dmitry Sepp]

Hi Laurent,

On Montag, 11. Mai 2020 16:31:36 CEST Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> 
> I don't think this would be the right level of abstraction. The V4L2 API
> is way too low-level when it comes to camera paravirtualization (and may
> not be the only API we'll have in the future). I thus recommend
> virtualizing cameras with a higher-level API, more or less on top of
> libcamera or the Android camera HAL (they both sit at the same level in
> the camera stack). Anything lower than that won't be practical.
> 

I think the the main thing to do first would be to define the logic of such 
virtio-camera device and the set of mandatory features. Host-side API is a bit 
of a side topic. But libcamera fits the best though.

Best regards,
Dmitry.