IPU6 webcam not accessible

Continuing the discussion from IPU6 camera not accessible:

I cant see any current threads on this subject so raising it again as I have this issue on my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11.

I spent a most of yesterday trying various ways of getting apps to see this webcam but although it is working and detected at a system level, it is not accessible via pipewire or any other layers that interface the hardware to apps.

The link above is from August last year! one would have expected a fix by now. Has anyone found one or do i need to deinstall tumbleweed and install Fedora or Ubuntu?

found this while searching for a solution. Seems like Fedora have someone working on it. Anyone in the suse community on this?

https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/28841.html

so I take its a NO