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libcamera v0.2.0 released! (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

libcamera:

A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS

Cameras are complex devices that need heavy hardware image processing operations. Control of the processing is based on advanced algorithms that must run on a programmable processor. This has traditionally been implemented in a dedicated MCU in the camera, but in embedded devices algorithms have been moved to the main CPU to save cost. Blurring the boundary between camera devices and Linux often left the user with no other option than a vendor-specific closed-source solution.

To address this problem the Linux media community has very recently started collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack that will be open-source-friendly while still protecting vendor core IP. libcamera was born out of that collaboration and will offer modern camera support to Linux-based systems, including traditional Linux distributions, ChromeOS and Android.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Thank you for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Any idea on whether is there more devices supported now? Those release notes are quite gibberish to me. My Surface SP7 camera isn't compatible as of yet :(

[–] Molecular0079 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

SP7 camera isn't going to be supported until we get IPU4 Linux drivers, so it isn't a libcamera issue.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Camera-Support

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for the clarification! I thought they were related.