Pinetab2 camera drivers

[biketool]

A little heads-up: GC has provided a datasheet, so I have it now!

Any updates on the camera drivers?
Recently Danctnix got working bluetooth drivers so this is all we need to have everything working.

[dave3294]

Hi Cringeops,
I'm a newbie with the pinetab, but I did notice something that could be relevant to the cameras problem.  With regard to the OV5648, the datasheet says that it doesn't follow the i2c standard, instead uses 2 byte addresses (Omnivision calls this 'SCCB' Serial Camera Control Bus), so any bog standard i2c bus needs to adapt to this.  In the Kconfig file (github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/devices/media/i2c/Kconfig)  the entry for OV5648:

Code:

config VIDEO_OV5648
    tristate "OmniVision OV5648 sensor support"
    depends on PM
    help
      This is a Video4Linux2 sensor driver for the OmniVision
      OV5648 camera.

      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
      module will be called ov5648.

     
but looking at the entry for the OV5647, instead of 'depends on PM'  (no idea what that means!)  you see 'select V4L2_CCI_I2C'  and I think maybe that tells v4l to use the camera control interface version of i2c istead of the standard one, and needs to be in the OV5648 entry as well.   
Most of the rest the stuff for this camera seem to be present but if v4l can't work the control bus it certainly explains why it's broken.    Apologies if this is a total red herring, but maybe it will help.

[KelsonV]

Is anyone working on the camera drivers at this point? Or are all the projects (however many there were) stalled?

[biketool]

Is anyone working on the camera drivers at this point? Or are all the projects (however many there were) stalled?

I think the best way is to follow the danctnx git at codeburg.  https://codeberg.org/DanctNIX/Pine64-Arch
I really dont know why everything her on pine64 forum has died down so badly.
At least they got bluetooth working a few nonths ago, still I would really like the camera to work as it makes QR codes which I end up using quite often to instant transfer short stuff like URLs.  The camera is important, though getting stable WiFi and Bluetooth are the biggest deal, it seems that Mobian has given up on all three which is really too bad as the hardware is pretty cool for the price and I am a debian user, I prefer not to have to learn all of the arch tricks.

you could try the latest, there are recent releases, also mention here in the pine64 blog though I dont have a matrix account so cant see what danctnix is doing. https://pine64.org/2026/05/18/may_2026_quick/ (can pine64 and danctnix just post what is happening and not put it behind a wall?)

I guess I have given up on pine64 too when they wouldnt warranty a brand new pinephone pro mainboard when the modem failed(they said get help on the forums, I was the PP modem person on this forum), which is too bad as I like the inexpensive hardware aimed at 100% non android free secure bootloader up linux install(mimimum blobs) and no creepy enemy modem running it's own spy OS in the DMA loop.