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The C++ objects that are expected to convey data through the IPA API will have associated methods that would require IPAs to link to libcamera. Even though the libcamera license allows this, suppliers of closed-source IPAs may have a different interpretation. To ease their mind and clearly separate vendor code and libcamera code, define a plain C IPA API. The corresponding C objects are stored in plain C structures or have their binary format documented, removing the need for linking to libcamera code on the IPA side. The C API adds three new C structures, ipa_context, ipa_context_ops and ipa_callback_ops. The ipa_context_ops and ipa_callback_ops contain function pointers for all the IPA interface methods and signals, respectively. The ipa_context represents a context of operation for the IPA, and is passed to the IPA oparations. The IPAInterface class is retained as it is easier to use than a plain C API for pipeline handlers, and wrappers will be developed to translate between the C and C++ APIs. Switching to the C API internally will be done in a second step. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org> Reviewed-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>
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libcamera
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**A complex camera support library for Linux, Android, and ChromeOS**
Cameras are complex devices that need heavy hardware image processing
operations. Control of the processing is based on advanced algorithms that must
run on a programmable processor. This has traditionally been implemented in a
dedicated MCU in the camera, but in embedded devices algorithms have been moved
to the main CPU to save cost. Blurring the boundary between camera devices and
Linux often left the user with no other option than a vendor-specific
closed-source solution.
To address this problem the Linux media community has very recently started
collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack that will be
open-source-friendly while still protecting vendor core IP. libcamera was born
out of that collaboration and will offer modern camera support to Linux-based
systems, including traditional Linux distributions, ChromeOS and Android.
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.. section-begin-getting-started
Getting Started
---------------
To fetch the sources, build and install:
::
git clone git://linuxtv.org/libcamera.git
cd libcamera
meson build
ninja -C build install
Dependencies
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The following Debian/Ubuntu packages are required for building libcamera.
Other distributions may have differing package names:
A C++ toolchain: [required]
Either {g++, clang}
for libcamera: [required]
meson ninja-build python3-yaml
for device hotplug enumeration: [optional]
pkg-config libudev-dev
for qcam: [optional]
qtbase5-dev libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 libqt5widgets5
for documentation: [optional]
python3-sphinx doxygen
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