Why is are the cameras tied to so tight to the kernel of Linux?

[RTasa]

I have a Pi4 4GB that works really well for a small device and I have a sampling of several other small computers. If they are x86 I can usually get them to work with RealSense but if they are ARM its a mess. So many other USB cameras can be installed and work just fine in many flavors of Linux why is RealSense so different?

[MartyG]

It has been a long term goal of the RealSense ​team to get away from dependency on kernels and patching. There are therefore bypass methods, such as libuvc-backend or -DFORCE, explained in the link below.

​https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P00004EmJPy/setting-up-librealsense-on-linux-versions-with-installation-problems-by-using-libuvcbackend?language=en_US