Intel Atom ISP Camera Driver Continues Being Cleaned Up In The Linux Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Atom ISP Camera Driver Continues Being Cleaned Up In The Linux Kernel

While Intel hasn't released a new Atom SoC in years, thanks to the work by Red Hat engineers and others in the open-source community, even drivers for aging Intel Atom platforms continue to receive improvements. One of the areas of ongoing work has been the Linux kernel driver for the Atom ISP camera interface for image signal processing in supporting the web camera on some of these old devices. With Linux 6.7 there is yet more work on the Intel Atom ISP driver...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-Media

[kpedersen]

While Intel hasn't released a new Atom SoC in years

I am going to guess that there are more of these things kicking around the wild than ARM / RISC-V of equal power / performance range so it probably makes sense.

[Dawn]

While Intel hasn't released a new Atom SoC in years

This is a super weird thing to say. Parker Ridge came out literally last year. This year's Alder Lake-N is also Atom - just without the "Atom" branding on the end product.

[coder]

While Intel hasn't released a new Atom SoC in years

Michael, that's only true of Intel's consumer-oriented products. After the original generation of Atom-powered devices created a lackluster impression on the general public, Intel limited the Atom brand to embedded markets.

There have been many Atom SoC products launched since then. The two product lines currently in production are the P-series and X-series.

• https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us...-p-series.html
• https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us...-x-series.html

The last P-series models were released in Q2 of 2022. The last X-series models were released in Q1 of this year.

The cores used in the Atom-branded SoCs are the same E-cores found in the familiar Apollo Lake, Gemini Lake, Jasper Lake, Elkhart Lake, and now Alder Lake-N SoCs that power many Chromebooks, and entry-level NUCs, mini-PCs, & laptops.

[Michael]

Michael, that's only true of Intel's consumer-oriented products. After the original generation of Atom-powered devices created a lackluster impression on the general public, Intel limited the Atom brand to embedded markets.

There have been many Atom SoC products launched since then. The two product lines currently in production are the P-series and X-series.

• https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us...-p-series.html
• https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us...-x-series.html

The last P-series models were released in Q2 of 2022. The last X-series models were released in Q1 of this year.

The cores used in the Atom-branded SoCs are the same E-cores found in the familiar Apollo Lake, Gemini Lake, Jasper Lake, Elkhart Lake, and now Alder Lake-N SoCs that power many Chromebooks, and entry-level NUCs, mini-PCs, & laptops.

Right, meant to say "on the consumer side" (now added) since that is where the ISP camera driver is relevant.

[coder]

Right, meant to say "on the consumer side" (now added) since that is where the ISP camera driver is relevant.

Understood, and you did a good job by referencing the specific SoCs affected. Indeed, those are older E-core based SoCs.