# Is the camera driver source code public?

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/1517/is-the-camera-driver-source-code-public
Category: General Questions (https://forum.modalai.com/category/2/general-questions)
Posted: 2022-11-02 21:01:15 UTC by Ed Sutter
Replies: 5 · Views: 1109

## Ed Sutter · 2022-11-02 21:01:15 UTC

If yes, where is it?

## Reply by Chad Sweet (ModalAI staff) · 2022-11-03 15:12:40 UTC

The camera-server code is public, which uses the HAL3 interface. The actual drivers though are closed per our agreement with Qualcomm

## Reply by m1baldwin · 2022-11-03 15:32:27 UTC

Just curious, where are the .so files for the different camera driver versions stored? are they available in http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/ ?

## Reply by modaltb (ModalAI staff) · 2022-11-03 15:54:22 UTC

`/usr/lib/camera`

Note that there are some sensors listed not necessarily 'enabled' as we're working on handling multi-cam configuration.  There are some requirements for sensors that are at the device tree level currently, making it tricky to "plug in wherever".

Our default configs that are enabled have pre-fix like `com.qti.sensormodule.mX` where X is the camera slot (0-5, eg connectors J6-J8, some graphics [here](https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-camera-configs/#overview) as this is a tricky topic!)

This is an area we're constantly working in, and our goal is to make it easy to "plug in wherever" and work! ;)

## Reply by m1baldwin · 2022-11-03 17:36:24 UTC

Thanks! Just one last question; are those drivers installed at build or grabbed by the package manager?

## Reply by modaltb (ModalAI staff) · 2022-11-03 19:25:18 UTC

Build time