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Yeah but the peripheral has to have a Linux driver or support, and for a cheap laptop a manufacturer is definitely not going to hire someone to custom port a Wi
by qbasic_forever 3y ago
Yeah but the peripheral has to have a Linux driver or support, and for a cheap laptop a manufacturer is definitely not going to hire someone to custom port a Windows driver to Linux. They're going to pull something off the shelf that already works with Linux.
- jeffbee 3y agoBut things like MIPI cameras don't work in any Linux other than ChromeOS. The open source partisans are still faffing around with their obsolete APIs, while ChromeOS discards the political aspect and just ships Intel's blob. That's why machines like the Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10 are not on the ChromeOS Flex certified models list, and their webcams don't work in any other distro either, but there are tons of Chromebooks with MIPI cameras.
- qbasic_forever 3y agoIt sounds like Intel is dragging its feet releasing an open source driver for those cameras. But as usual if you use a bleeding edge distro like Arch it's just mashing in a few AURs and you'll have support: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=280559 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=280559