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Fedora 41 Aims For Out-Of-The-Box Webcam Support For Newer Intel Laptops
The open-source software pieces have come together where Fedora / Red Hat developers are hoping that for Fedora 41 there can be out-of-the-box support for the web cameras on newer Intel laptops.
It's been a long and tiring process for Linux to properly support Intel laptops with the web camera leveraging their IPU6 IP. Back in 2022 woes around the Intel IPU6 web camera on Linux led kernel developers to recommend avoiding Alder Lake laptops given that it would be a lengthy driver upstreaming process... Sure enough, two years later the upstream Linux support for these web cameras on Alder Lake laptops and newer is beginning to settle. Red Hat's Hans de Goede who has done much work in this area and for the Linux desktop at large took to a change proposal for having Intel IPU6 camera support be one of the features for Fedora 41.
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