Acquiring / accessing video data

[halm <halm@xxxxxxxx>]

The usual v4l list newbie apologies: first time posting here, new to V4L(2),
sorry if this is
too obvious a question or the wrong forum.

I'm writing an app for Arago Linux running on a TI OMAP "evm" evaluation
board.  I didn't create
this system, but V4L2 seems to be there just fine.

I downloaded and built the capture example (
http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/spec/capture-example.html).  I
added code to init_device() to initialize my particular camera (it's
listening via I2C for configuration settings),
and can run it no problem.  I'm certain that the camera is running since
after my I2C setup I can use an
oscilloscope and see sync and video.

The process_image() function simply prints '.' for every frame.  I wanted to
verify that image data
is really accessible and so I've added the following code to
process_image():

static void process_image( const void * p, size_t len )

{

#ifdef WAS_THIS

  fputc ('.', stdout);

#else //WAS_THIS

  char      * cP = (char *)p;

  int         hi  = cP[0];

  int         lo  = cP[0];

  long long   sum = 0;

  int i;


  for( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {

      if( (int)(cP[i]) > hi ) hi = cP[i];

      if( (int)(cP[i]) < lo ) lo = cP[i];

      sum += cP[i];

  }

  printf("[%p] Hi<%d> low<%d> mean<%d> (%d bytes)\n", p, hi, lo, (int)(sum /
len), len);
  fflush (stdout);
#endif //WAS_THIS

}


I can see that process_image() is repeatedly called and so I do believe that
I'm getting frames, however I
don't seem to have any image data:
    [0x402ec000] Hi<128> low<16> mean<72> (691200 bytes)
    [0x40395000] Hi<128> low<16> mean<72> (691200 bytes)

... and so on.  The min/max/mean never change.  I can change the lighting
and with an oscilloscope on the
video, and I can see that the pixel values do change.  I added another
printf to show me the first few bytes
of video buffer:
  10 80 10 80 10 80 10 80  10 80 10 80 10 80 10 80
  10 80 10 80 10 80 10 80  10 80 10 80 10 80 10 80

What am I missing here?  I believe that the V4L2 driver knows about the
video hardware on my board and doesn't
need to know any other camera specifics.  Is there something else I need to
know or do to acquire images?

I do know that the camera is outputting 640x480 8-bit per pixel grayscale.
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