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You can't just modprobe a kernel driver and have it magically work. The kernel will load it but it will have no idea what it is for and it is left unused. Unlike USB or PCI devices which can be detected and recognized based on standardized embedded identification, there is no standard way to...

You normally almost never have to modprobe a module (unless you first removed it manually) since the kernel will automatically load it when it detects a compatible device. The reason is hasn't is probably that it's missing from Device Tree. As far as I can tell it does look like the appropriate...

on TI SoCs I know my way around the hardware. Not so much the software stacks I'm afraid. Ducati is the codename for the dual-M3 subsystem present on the omap4 and dm81xx; the dual-M4 successor on the omap5 is called Benelli. As far as I know there's no functional difference other than the...

Actually the subsystem for that is IVA-HD. Unlike its precedessor IVA2 on the omap3 it doesn't embed a C64x+ DSP. Instead there's a separate C64x-derivative "Tesla" DSP, which seems to be focussed on audio since it has a direct connection to the Audio Backend (ABE) subsystem. The main intended...

Both, but more in a non-default orientation of a framebuffer than in the default orientation. Existing application don't need modification regardless since TILER is doing the swizzling, not the application. (It is for several reasons still preferable though to let the cpu use the default...

If it's designed in it can't be shut off since the signal passes through it. Also the omap5 has scalers in the display subsystem (it can composite four layers, three of which have independent scalers). lol TILER doesn't cause an additional copy of the framebuffer (like doing the rotation in...

You probably mean dual-rank 1GB (K4B8G1646Q or K4B8G1646D) chips, i.e. two 512MB dies per package, four of which would be on the cpu board. Single-rank 1GB DDR3 chips are indeed fairly new and still a bit rare/expensive. Funny that dual-rank seems to be officially supported in the OMAP5, TI has...

"6.5 x 6.5 x 4.6 mm (without lens cover)", so it wouldn't have made it anyway.

They're really tiny nowadays of course (the smallest I found with a few minutes of googling was the 6.5 mm x 6.5 mm VX6953CB) but I have no idea how cramped the design already is right now. And of course there's the cost issue. The camera subsystem, especially the SIMCOP subsubsystem does seem...

I personally have experience with baremetal programming on a DM8148, which includes the dual-cortex-M3 predecessor (Ducati) to the dual-cortex-M4 subsystem (Benelli). Apart from the cores used the subsystems are identical afaik. My experience is that it's really easy to at least put one core to...