The growing image-processor unpleasantness

Posted Aug 18, 2022 14:52 UTC (Thu) by fredex (subscriber, #11727)
Parent article: The growing image-processor unpleasantness

One wonders why Intel has left Linux in the lurch, as they commonly seem to provide necessary underpinnings. I didn't see any mention here of whatever their rationale may be.

The growing image-processor unpleasantness

Posted Aug 18, 2022 15:54 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (2 responses)

Just a guess here, but they probably licensed the image processing core from someone else, and don't have the rights to release code/etc. Not unlike their Atom GPUs that were PowerVR-based.

The growing image-processor unpleasantness

Posted Aug 24, 2022 19:01 UTC (Wed) by andy_shev (subscriber, #75870) [Link]

It's used to be Silicon Hive. And actually AtomISP2 (predecessor of IPU3) gets its momentum (thanks to community and some code published for Android).

The growing image-processor unpleasantness

Posted Aug 25, 2022 9:18 UTC (Thu) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033) [Link]

AMD need to develop or buy in one that they can release. That would provide another reason not to buy Intel.

The growing image-processor unpleasantness

Posted Aug 18, 2022 18:07 UTC (Thu) by airlied (subscriber, #9104) [Link]

I think a lot of it has been Intel have split their "Linux" groups out into the product groups in many places. This means more exposure to hardware and Windows, and more "code sharing". Less importance of upstream and open-source. They get the GPL means kernel drivers must be open, but they are often happy to just share binary Windows code for userspace and think that is acceptable, until they find out after ignoring their internal feedback that it isn't.