• Complex Cameras Micro-conference in LPC and Debian

    From Ricardo Ribalda Delgado@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 18 15:10:01 2024
    Hi

    I am Ricardo, a newbie DD, and a kernel camera developer. Last year I
    made a presentation about complex cameras in the Cambridge MiniDebconf
    [1]:

    There is a big number of cameras that are not supported by Debian and
    that number grows everyday [2][3]. In phones it is almost impossible to
    find a phone with a working camera upstream.

    The current camera situation mirrors the graphics card from a decade
    ago: vendors and upstream efforts are disconnected, leaving distros
    and users struggling.

    I am co-organizing a conference during Linux Plumbers to address this
    issue [4]: �The plan is that vendors, distros, media maintainers and
    DRM maintainers sit on the same table and collaborate.

    I strongly believe Debian's participation in this conference is
    crucial. We need to make sure that whatever solution is implemented by
    the vendors can also be used by our users.

    I was wondering how many people are interested in this topic (I guess
    the kernel team?), and what is needed for someone in the project to
    talk on behalf of the project.

    I can share my point of view as DD and what I understand are the
    licensing requirements for a package to exist in our distro... but
    there is probably a better person to represent Debian than me. Plus I
    am already representing another distro, ChromeOS (my employer).

    Best regards!

    [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2023/MiniDebConfCambridge/Ribalda [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntelMIPICamera
    [3] https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2023/schedule/the-arm-laptop-project/
    [4] https://lpc.events/event/18/contributions/1679/

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    Ricardo

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