To follow up on a recent post of mine (

Mastodon

Robert Mader (@rmader@mastodon.social)

@tbernard @maximiliano@floss.social no winning in trying to mention everyone who contributed to something involving so many components, but I'd lik...

): if you want to see working cameras on more devices using a #mobilelinux distro of you choice, consider helping with sensor driver upstreaming. Apparently it a bunch of cases this really isn't all to difficult and the main work you need to do is combine an existing driver with data from downstream kernels, test that it works - et voilà, a big part of the work is done! #postmarketos #mobian

For those running #postmarketos edge on a device with working camera - the number of which is raising fast enough to make me lose track - and you want to play around with the great new #gnomecamera / #gnomesnapshot #gnome47 release: you'll need to install gst-plugins-rs manually until some build issues are fixed. The release features *heavily* improved rendering performance, mainly thanks to improvements in #gtk4 and the #gstreamer gtk4paintablesink (also for apps using the aperture library)

I'm increasingly excited about what #opencl support coming together across the board in #mesa could mean for multimedia in the free ecosystem. Just some thoughts about what I *think* is on the table: - fluent/efficient AV1[1] playback across the board, *maybe* even on hardware like the Raspberry Pi4 - real-time AV1 encoding in reasonable quality for video chat, screencasting and camera recording - a GPU ISP, allowing reasonable image quality with any camera sensor 1: or any other format?

Just got me a #pixel3a - used, cheap and in surprisingly good condition. The updater of the stock rom tells me that the device is EOL - and indeed, according to

endoflife.date

Google Pixel

Check end-of-life, release policy and support schedule for Google Pixel.

it was EOLed over two years ago, despite being released only some 5/6 years ago. The kernel version starts with 4.x. Well, tomorrow pre-build #postmarketos images should appear on

postmarketOS

postmarketOS // Install postmarketOS

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

, the next weekly should have it promoted from "testing" to "community" and the kernel is at 6.10.x.