The PCI ID Repository

Name: 720p Facetime HD Camera

Note: Multimedia controller [0480]

lspci output:

04:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:1570]
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:1570]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at c1d00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at c1c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [68] Vendor Specific Information: Len=44 <?>
Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-ff-ff-00-00-00
Capabilities: [150] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [160] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [1b0] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [220] #15

jamesan

2015-01-25 08:34:25

Are you sure? with http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/USB_BDC_UDC.html, this device looks like a USB 3 peripheral controller in a Broadcom SoC. The FaceTime is known as USB device, if yours is in the "lsusb" output then it is probably not related to this device.

AlbertP

2015-01-26 12:35:16

Name: James An

Hey, yes, I'm fairly certain. The camera on the latest Macbook Pro (MBP11,3) uses the PCIe bus to transmit raw 720p video, it seems. It appears that there is no linux-compatible driver for it at the moment and that Broadcom has not released any information on this device to help with that. This issue has been filed both on the Arch Linux wiki and Kernel.org bug tracker:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBookPro11,x#Web_cam
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71131

There is an effort in progress to reverse-engineer construct a linux driver for this on GitHub:
https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie

jamesan

2015-01-26 18:09:09