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Date:   Mon, 15 Aug 2022 09:14:52 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: Missing MIPI IPU6 camera driver for Intel Alder Lake laptops
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 04:07:32PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (22/08/15 09:02), Greg KH wrote:
> [..]
> > > We haven't sent out KCAM for upstream review yet. It's open sourced,
> > > as of this moment [1], but we still need some time and wanted to convert
> > > one of the previous generations of IPU drivers (IPU3) to KCAM first to
> > > see if everything is working as we wanted it to.
> > 
> > That didn't answer my question on when you were planning to actually
> > submit this :)
> 
> Definitely not today. Someday, for sure :)
> 
> I don't want to promise any timelines. But we are certainly not
> talking "weeks", we are talking "months". Several months is a
> realistic timeline.

Ok, so getting this merged is a good year out at the best, realisticly 2
years given that once you submit the first version for review, the real
work will start happening.

So I'll stick with my original statement, don't buy this hardware as the
vendors don't seem to want to upstream the drivers any time soon :(

thanks,

greg k-h