Pi NoIR camera board, which driver and sensor does it use?

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Hi, I am trying to integrate the Pi NoIR camera board in an embedded platform (other than the raspberry). Could you indicate which sensor and driver does it use? Is the driver opensource? Thanks

rew · Accepted Answer

I remember hearing about the sensor's identifing number. OVxxxx, so what you're saying could very well be correct. A quick google search should verify that.

As I've said: There is no kernel driver for that chip, as the sensor is handled by the videocore. Raspberry pi applications just communicate with the videocore. If they need to go through the kernel for that I don't know. Maybe there is a video-for-Linux driver that communicates with the videocore in this situation. In any case, the kernel does not meddle with the OVxxxx sensor.

update: Here I did the search for you. One of the links that pops up is: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=122759

Jamesh there is "alluding" to the GPU-code being closed source. He's one of the engineers involved in writing that stuff so you'd better take what he says as valid....