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Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

The Fairphone 6's ultra-wide camera (OmniVision OV13B10) now has experimental Linux support, allowing it to function in GNOME Snapshot and enabling QR scanning capabilities. The developer achieved this by integrating the existing mainline OV13B10 driver with the qcom-camss driver, configuring the device tree, and setting up libcamera for image processing on the Qualcomm SM7635 SoC. While audio and the two other cameras (Sony and Samsung sensors without mainline drivers) remain unsupported, this progress demonstrates that the Fairphone 6 can become more usable on Linux with community-driven development.
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