On 2/12/23 22:06, Kate Hsuan wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 4:54 AM Demi Marie Obenour demiobenour@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/10/23 04:24, Kate Hsuan wrote:
Hi,
Recently, we are working on getting IPU6 MIPI camera to work for the laptops. We also made a akmod package for Intel opensource drivers and the package will live in RPM fusion. The details can be found here. https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6469
Could a reviewer who is familiar with akmod package take a look into it?
Thank you
This is great! That said, are you working on getting this driver upstreamed, with corresponding working, open userspace?
Hans already got the important part (INT3472 LED) of IPU6 controls upstream. However, Intel IPU6 and IVSC drivers had already opensource.
How is the LED driver the important part? Are the IPU6 and IVSC drivers being upstreamed?
Also, the software-controlled LED was a bad design for obvious security reasons. The hardware should have been designed such that there is no way to power on the image sensor without turning on the LED. This would have been very easy to implement.
The entire solution is based on the Intel proprietary application libraries to make the MIPI camera work. Simply speaking, For now, we need Hans' upstream work, Intel driver, and Intel binary library files to make it work. Now, we are working on packaging the v4l2loopback solution for the users. :)
Are there plans to replace the proprietary userspace with open source code? I don’t care if the open source userspace is less optimized than the proprietary binary. I do care that distributions can ship with IPU6 support out of the box, and that requires open source userspace and drivers that are either upstream or themselves running in userspace via VFIO.