Re:How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing?
by bri3d on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:06PM
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Not really. The firmware is basically protecting itself - the closed source firmware contains proprietary image processing code (ISP) for the camera which Pi Trading paid for, so it's only supposed be used with the Pi Camera.
A complete open source re-implementation would either not support ISP, or would include a non-proprietary version of the same or similar code, at which point they shouldn't care.
Re:How is the free firmware for the Raspberry progressing?
by monocasa on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:15PM
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There's also protecting access to the hardware video codecs, in order to account for licensing fees. They might care about that if the MPEG-LA starts being a dick about it.
A complete open source re-implementation would either not support ISP, or would include a non-proprietary version of the same or similar code, at which point they shouldn't care.