linux-drivers/
drivers/media/platform/nxp

NXP i.MX camera and media processing pipeline drivers

Camera capture and image-processing blocks built into NXP's i.MX family of ARM application processors, covering MIPI CSI receivers, ISPs, and related media IP found on i.MX6UL/ULL, i.MX7, i.MX8M (including 8M Plus with its dual ISP), and the newer i.MX91 and i.MX93 industrial SoCs used in embedded vision, automotive, and IoT designs.

keep conf=0.87 deploy=medium replacement=none subsystem=media category=media-camera-tv
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recommendation

It should stay because the underlying NXP i.MX SoCs are current, actively sold products in 2025 (the i.MX 8M Plus is marketed as Active, and the i.MX93 industrial part has a July 2025 datasheet and a shipping evaluation kit), and the directory is under sustained upstream development with recent feature work adding support for the newest i.MX91 and i.MX93 chips. There is no sign of any deprecation discussion.

repository signals

30 files
20,964 source lines
231 commits, 5y
+25,522 / −4,413 lines added / removed, 5y
50 authors, 5y
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sources

  1. git.kernel.org

    Upstream Kconfig covers active NXP i.MX media IP blocks across newer SoCs, including i.MX6UL/L, i.MX7, i.MX8M, i.MX91 and i.MX93 camera/media components.

  2. git.kernel.org

    Upstream history for this directory shows sustained recent maintenance and feature work rather than retirement.

  3. nxp.com

    NXP lists i.MX 8M Plus as Active and markets dual ISP and 2x MIPI CSI, indicating relevant media hardware remains sold for new designs.

  4. nxp.com

    The July 7, 2025 i.MX93 industrial data sheet lists camera interfaces, showing current-generation i.MX93 devices still ship with supported camera/media hardware.

  5. nxp.com

    NXP still offers an active i.MX93 evaluation kit in market channels, supporting ongoing deployment of this hardware family.

codex reasoning notes (technical)

Local shell inspection showed this is a real driver directory with platform-driver entry points and Kconfig entries for multiple NXP i.MX media blocks; local git log showed substantive feature/fix activity through 2026-01-21, including i.MX91/i.MX93 enablement. I attempted lore-first evidence, but `lei` was unavailable in the environment and web lore queries produced no removal hits, so I found no evidence of an upstream deprecation/removal thread. URLs were obtained via web search for NXP product pages, plus canonical recall of stable git.kernel.org tree/log pages corroborated against local shell output.