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Apparently the Raspberry Pi camera has a DRM chip in it to stop anyone else from designing or producing third party cameras. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=149426 … WTF‽ I think I'm going to start calling it the Raspberry iPi. Why the hell is this garbage in an *educational* product?
I understand the SoC design is terribad and it's all a Broadcom mess and it took ages to open up and it still relies on proprietary firmware and yada yada because Broadcom. But this is pure evil added deliberately and there is absolutely *no* reason to do it other than greed.
this kept me off of it
Yeah that reasoning is utter bullshit. I don't care if they can't document the interface because of NDAs or whatever, but locking it down *on purpose* is just pure greed. What's next, authentication for HATs?
I'm confused, isn't the interface a MIPI / CSI and therefore anyone can roll their own camera and drivers?
They stuck an authentication chip in their camera and apparently check for it in their (closed source) GPU firmware that talks to the CSI interface and image acquisition hardware.
Huh. The camera I have with my pi zero certainly *looks* to be third party and it works without any issues.
Ohhh I didn’t realise it was the V2 camera
It has always really just been a simple breakout board / reference design (reference design that you can’t actually get) for the walled Broadcom ecosystem where you can’t get datasheets or documentation for anything (or the silicon) without NDA and an order for a million units.
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