OSS + ELC EU 2026

Modern camera use cases are realized by complex pipelines of several IPs blocks that process frames produced by an image sensor to deliver great looking images to applications.

Support for the most advanced use cases is implemented by time-multiplexing the underlying hardware resources, performing job scheduling at the hardware/firmware level and orchestrating the image processing steps across multiple drivers and IPs.

The Video4Linux2 kernel subsystem currently doesn't provide any abstraction for drivers and applications to fully support modern designs and vendors that intend to make use of the capabilities of their hardware had so far worked around this
limitations by implementing downstream solutions.

This talk describes the most recent and the forthcoming developments in the Video4Linux2 kernel framework to support modern camera use cases, including but not limited to multi-driver pipelines, multi-context time multiplexing of hardware resources and job scheduling, with practical examples from the field on recent SoC designs.