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Intel IPU6 Driver Being Upstreamed In Linux 6.10


Intel's Image Processing Unit (IPU) IP has been a cause for concern in recent years as the lack of proper upstream open-source driver support has led Linux users running into troubles making use of MIPI camera sensors on modern laptops

Intel's Image Processing Unit (IPU) IP has been a cause for concern in recent years as the lack of proper upstream open-source driver support has led Linux users running into troubles making use of MIPI camera sensors on modern laptops. There's been seven revisions to the Intel IPU6 driver while now it's finally within the media subsystem's pull request for the Linux 6.10 merge window. Do note that besides the Intel IPU6 driver going into Linux 6.10, there are also IPU6 firmware binaries also needed that have been in linux-firmware.git since earlier in the year.

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