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?
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Replying to @marcan42
Luke Wren Retweeted Eben Upton
Eben, the CEO, has responded to this: https://mobile.twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1088440503622909952 … I don't think your statement is true at all: "has a DRM chip in it to stop anyone else from designing or producing third party cameras" But perhaps that's what happens when you stir outrage over a 2yo forum post
Luke Wren added,
Eben Upton @EbenUptonReplying to @embedded_iot @abxlabs and 6 othersYou are confused. You can plug any CSI camera into the Raspberry Pi. There's even a kernel driver for the CSI receiver, which we paid for (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9951525/ ). What you can't do is clone the official v2 camera module and use the default ISP tuning, which we also paid for.1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
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It certainly stops anyone else from designing/producing third party modules based on the same Sony sensor as the official V2 camera and getting the same performance/features out of it. Which is still stupid. Well, it used to, since I just tweeted the "secret" HMAC key.
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Replying to @marcan42
Maybe it would be more useful to reverse the ISP configuration code rather than the HMAC key. Seems more in the spirit of open hardware
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And on a less baity note ;) pi has exposed the option to bypass the ISP to userland, so if there is any FOSS implementation of an ISP, it might be fun to drop that in instead. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=175711 …
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Sure, but then for starters you don't get to use the VideoCore so you have to do all your own processing on the ARM, consuming more resources. There's just no reasonable way to get the same features without their blob that requires their chip (since Broadcom won't open VideoCore)
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