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Add a link in the toctree to the API documentation. sphinx doesn't seem to support relative external links, but we can trick it into thinking the link is absolute by adding '#://' at the end. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
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libcamera
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Cameras are complex devices that need heavy hardware image processing
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operations. Control of the processing is based on advanced algorithms that must
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run on a programmable processor. This has traditionally been implemented in a
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dedicated MCU in the camera, but in embedded devices algorithms have been moved
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to the main CPU to save cost. Blurring the boundary between camera devices and
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Linux often left the user with no other option than a vendor-specific
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closed-source solution.
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To address this problem the Linux media community has very recently started
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collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack that will be
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open-source-friendly while still protecting vendor core IP. libcamera was born
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out of that collaboration and will offer modern camera support to Linux-based
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systems, including traditional Linux distributions, ChromeOS and Android.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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:caption: Contents:
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Home <self>
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Docs <docs>
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Coding Style <coding-style>
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Contribute <contributing>
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API <../api-html/index.html#://>
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