Re: Hardware for testing Dead Pixel API

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hello,

On Tuesday 28 October 2014 15:10:22 Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > As we discussed in the mini-summit I am interested in upstreaming an
> > API for Dead Pixels.
> > 
> > Since it is not viable to push my camera code, I would like to add it
> > to an already supported camera.
> > 
> > On the summit somebody mention a board that also has hardware support
> > for Dead Pixels, but the driver did not support it. If my memory is
> > right it was a beagle board plus a sensor board.
> > 
> > Could somebody point me to the right hardware to buy ?
> 
> The OMAP 3 ISP does have dead pixel correction but I'm not sure if it's
> documented well enough to actually implement it in public documentation.
> 
> A used Nokia N9 or N900 would be one possibility. I think the only
> cameras I've seen dead pixels in are either of the front cameras,
> probably the one in N900. At the moment only the N9 main camera works
> for sure however. The N9 or N900 front cameras will need some debugging
> work / DT snippets at least.
> 
> There are cameras for Beagle boards, too. Laurent, do you happen to
> remember if you've seen any with dead pixels in it?

I haven't seen any, but on the other hand I haven't really paid attention. It 
shouldn't be difficult to damage pixels on a sensor :-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart