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/ --- Ricardo
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