I did not expect drivers for Beagle Bone, but I preemptively responded to "But BeagleBone is better" responses, which I've gotten every single time when discussing RasPi limitations.
> it was not possible for RPI users to interface a custom camera module with RPi
That's correct. But the RPi's camera modules (standard and noir) are very well supported (even if source is not all open), and they work very well - reasonable quality 5MP@15fps, FullHD@30FPS, 720p@60fps, with access to the encoding/decoding pipeline that allows you to e.g. insert an overlay before h264 encoding the original stream (in fact, that's the most cost effective way to add overlays to an already encoded 1080p h264 video even if you don't connect a camera).
I find that it's pretty hard to beat RPi on price, support, functionality/price, community, openness etc. in general - to the point that if the RPi is not the right solution for a project, it is unlikely that any of its competitors (low power sub $100 cpu+gpu+network on a small form factor) is.
> it was not possible for RPI users to interface a custom camera module with RPi
That's correct. But the RPi's camera modules (standard and noir) are very well supported (even if source is not all open), and they work very well - reasonable quality 5MP@15fps, FullHD@30FPS, 720p@60fps, with access to the encoding/decoding pipeline that allows you to e.g. insert an overlay before h264 encoding the original stream (in fact, that's the most cost effective way to add overlays to an already encoded 1080p h264 video even if you don't connect a camera).
I find that it's pretty hard to beat RPi on price, support, functionality/price, community, openness etc. in general - to the point that if the RPi is not the right solution for a project, it is unlikely that any of its competitors (low power sub $100 cpu+gpu+network on a small form factor) is.