[MinnowBoard] connecting mipi/csi camera to the minnowboard

[John Hawley]

I can say, if we are considering a next version, it is under
consideration :-)

(not that that's a terribly useful answer, but you know how it goes...)

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 11/02/2016 01:29 PM, Elad Bar wrote:
> Can a MIPI/CSI connector or connector by add to the next version of the
> MinnowBoard ?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:34 PM, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com
> <mailto:john.hawley at intel.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The simple answer is no, we can't connect a MIPI/CSI camera to the
>     MinnowBoard MAX/Turbot directly, as we lack a connector for MIPI/CSI.
> 
>     The longer, more complicated is: yes, but it's obviously complicated.
>     The E38xx series SoCs do support MIPI/CSI on them directly, however
>     because of space, complexity, cost, a lack of a commonly accepted
>     connector, and general lack of open source drivers (at the time) for
>     MIPI/CSI cameras, when the MAX/Turbot was designed we forwent a header
>     for it.  Fast forward a bit and the situation with MIPI/CSI is better,
>     but it's not currently on the board.  It could be added with a custom
>     spin of the board, but I don't currently know of anyone doing that.
> 
>     - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
> 
>     On 10/29/2016 6:34 AM, Elad Bar wrote:
>     > Is it possible to connect a mipi/csi camera to the Minnowboard
>     MAX/Turbo
>     > like the one on
>     > the Raspberry Pi ?
>     >
>     >
>     >
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