Learn How to Support Your SoC and ISP in Libcamera - Laurent Pinchart, Ideas on Board

Learn How to Support Your SoC and ISP in Libcamera - Laurent Pinchart, Ideas on Board

libcamera is the only open-source camera framework for Linux systems that supports ISP-based cameras. Thanks to its integration with other key multimedia frameworks such as GStreamer or PipeWire, libcamera's adoption is increasing across all market segments, from embedded devices to desktops. More and more ISP and SoC vendors are exploring how to add support for their platforms to the project. Yet, while libcamera's goals, design, architecture and application API have been presented in multiple conferences over the last years, little has been said of how to support a new platform. This talk will dive in the libcamera's internals, and explain, with real life examples, how to support a new platform. The audience will learn how to implement a pipeline handler, write image processing algorithms to control the ISP, and use the compliance test suite to validate the result.