[alsa-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Media Controller workshop in Helsinki

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

Cc: ALSA ML

On 07/08/2015 01:16 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As discussed on our IRC #v4l channel at Freenode, we'll be running a 3-day
>  Media Controller workshop in Helsinki between July 29-31.
> 
> The main goal of this workshop is to fixup the problems with the Media 
> Controller API to properly represent device nodes and the control tree, as
> this is a requirement for the Media Controller to be used by DVB, ALSA and
> radio devices.
> 
> This is an invitation-only event, as we want to be sure that we'll have 
> there people that are actively working with the Media Controller, DVB 
> and/or ALSA. So, if you think this is for you, please send us an e-mail.
> 
> Also, even if you're not able to participate, feel free to submit
> relevant topics related to the Media Controller, in order to help us to
> build the workshop's agenda and take other needs into account when working
> on the needed API changes.
> 
> As usual, we'll be using the media-workshop at linuxtv.org ML for the 
> specific discussions about that, so the ones interested on participate on
> such discussions and/or be present there are requested to subscribe it,
> and to submit themes of interest via the mailing lists.
> 
> For those interested on this theme, I'll add a list of the most relevant 
> past discussions about this theme.
> 
> Hope to see you there!
> 
> Regards, Mauro
> 
> ---
> 
> The DVB needs with regards to MC are mapped on those two blog entries: 
> http://blogs.s-osg.org/media-controller-support-for-dvb-part-1/ 
> http://blogs.s-osg.org/the-role-of-dtv-network-interfaces-in-media-controller-support-for-dvb/
>
>  We had two discussions about MC on our last mini-summit, back on March,
> 26. The discussions and slides can be found at: 
> http://linuxtv.org/news.php?entry=2015-05-05.mchehab 
> http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/presentations/media_summit_2015_US/dtv_media_controller_discussion_v1.pdf
>
>  A summary of the issues can also be seen on the emails below: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg85910.html 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg85979.html 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg83883.html 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@vger.kernel.org/msg83884.html
> 
> Patches that minimally expose DVB via MC were merged on Kernel 4.1, 
> although it is currently marked as BROKEN, in order to tag those API 
> extensions as likely to change on future versions.
> 
> The initial patchset proposal for ALSA support on MC is there at: 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg89574.html
> 
> The most recent proposal for such fixup can be seen at: 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg91365.html