2. Lots of fixes for the i915g driver. That's the gallium driver for very old Intel devices - i.e. the driver that's still part of Mesa using a more modern infrastructure. The old driver got removed a while ago while this replacement was in a pretty rough shape. Now you should be able to run Gnome on 20y(?) old HW again :P

I mainly like this one because it shows so nicely how some caring person can keep old HW running in an evolving environment.

2/3

And what's really cool here: the matrix will be part of the tuning file which can be created and edited without rebuilding libcamera, making that process more inviting.

Only reason it hasn't been done by others already seems to be just lack of time - so let's try to share work among more shoulders, especially as it's a task that's likely going to be quite rewarding :)

If things are broken for some users they have lots of alternatives to switch to.

In #gnome47 we'll limit things to H264 on (semi-recent) Intel and AMD (those using VA-API). In the future we'll hopefully be able to extend things to AV1, maybe VP9, and more platforms. Depending on how things develop that'll be V4L2 or Vulkan.

@rmader @nekohayo this is the thing Aral was complaining about, right? funny how it happened without any help/input from him whatsoever

In the future #gtk4 will hopefully be able to offload the rotation further to #wayland compositors, possibly allowing a zero-copy pipeline from the camera to the display. That needs more work though.

Similarly the #pinephonepro, which has a proper ISP.

These devices are really on the low-end performance wise - so if things run okay-ish here we should be good with all more powerful devices coming up.

@rmader This is amazing. I can't wait to use the same camera app on my phone as on my desktop.

@rmader Awesome work folks!🎉