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External webcams are no problem, agreed. New-ish laptops with intel tiger lake procesors use MIPI cameras with ipu6 and don't work out of the box or only on sp

by bpfrh 2y ago

External webcams are no problem, agreed. New-ish laptops with intel tiger lake procesors use MIPI cameras with ipu6 and don't work out of the box or only on specific kernel/distro combos. There are efforts to mainline the driver and it is better than 2 years ago but still a big step backwards[1] [1]https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers

jauntywundrkind 2y ago
To Intel's credit ipu6 packs a ton a ton a ton of super advanced capabilities in. Having a good video pipeline is a huge edge. That it took a while for upstreaming to get really into gear on Linux does not super astound me. This feels like a place where we need to expect the open source world to have to find its purchase first before traction forward can really start. This was a super shitty experience though. It really felt unplanned & chaotic. Hopefully some of the kernel architecture carved out for ipu6 is good & useful for running other video pipelines. Most webcammers don't knowingly think heavily on color science, but ideally our devices can.