A. Qualcomm Developed & Tuned parts are qualified by Qualcomm directly. These parts include a separate driver made available by Qualcomm leveraging features in the ISP. Partner Developed & Tuned Parts are provided directly from the partner to developers.
A. Qualcomm chipsets natively support MIPI CSI and the Qualcomm reference devices have GMSL deserializer to support a camera using the GMSL2 interface. Qualcomm Linux devices provide driver support for USB web cameras that adhere to the USB video class (UVC) standard. A developer can also add an open-source GStreamer plugin (e.g., rtspsrc) to handle camera streams coming from the network.
A. Qualcomm provides a list of approved cameras on the Peripheral page that can be used on reference devices, and this list is continuously expanding. Developers can purchase approved camera modules and receive the driver and image tuning data for these cameras directly from Partners.
A. Yes. Qualcomm provides documents for MIPI-CSI/GMSL camera sensor driver development. A developer can develop a camera sensor driver and IQ tuning for a specific sensor. To develop a camera sensor driver and IQ tuning, a developer needs authenticated level code access, which is provided by Qualcomm. Please reach out to your Sales representative to discuss authenticated camera source code access.
A. Yes. The Qualcomm Linux devices provide driver support for USB web cameras that adhere to the USB video class (UVC) standard. The uvcvideo driver exposes these cameras as V4L2 video devices, which can be accessed through the character device nodes such as /dev/videoX. A developer can refer to the USB camera section in the USB documentation.
A. Yes. A network camera can be supported with open-source GStreamer plugin. Getting a camera stream from the network depends on the network protocols supported by the GStreamer plugin. A developer can add an open-source GStreamer plugin (e.g., rtspsrc) to handle camera streams from the network and create a pipeline as needed. For the developing GStreamer application in Qualcomm platform, see the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia SDK documentation.
A. Qualcomm provides a list of approved cameras that can be used on the reference devices, and this list is continuously expanding. Qualcomm developed camera drivers and tuning are provided as part of the Qualcomm software release. Partner developed camera drivers and tuning are provided directly by Qualcomm partners.
