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Holy hell, they’re really using PCIe in the mobile devices pcisig.com/sites/default/

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battery failure. battery failure would cause the cursed device to fail DDR training and lose the PCIe link with the camera. replacing the battery immediately fixed all of the issues. sigh

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they've been using PCIe to connect to the baseband for a while, it's better than USB! PCIe for -cameras- is new, though not surprising

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Where do you see that?

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Pixel 3. it calls the camera "Easel" and the binary runs code paths that log strings with "easel_comm_pcie.cc" in the filename

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It's an Intel ARM SoC with an ASIC for very parallelized HDR+ image processing. Runs Linux uploaded to it on boot and will accept anything: twitter.com/kdrag0n/status Was replaced by a Samsung chip including generic AOSP Neural Networks API on Pixel 4. 4a and beyond dropped it.

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Jul 9, 2020

Mainline Linux v5.8-rc4 kernel running on a Pixel Visual Core image coprocessor, built with Clang 11 + LTO + CFI + SCS for kicks. It runs Linux, so why not put it to good use? github.com/kdrag0n/mainli

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PVC on Pixel 2 / 3 and PNC on Pixel 4 were primarily used to implement HDR+ for apps other than Google Camera. Google Camera mostly continued using Snapdragon DSP and software. They ended up simply using Snapdragon capabilities with no loss for the Pixel 4a and 5th gen devices.

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PVC had high latency and CameraX disables HDR+ on the Pixel 2 and 3 in the default latency mode. It might have been better for the OS to use the DSP like Google Camera... PNC was far better but quickly obsoleted by the SoC. Possible they used what they learned from it for Tensor.