With luck the OpenIPC cameras that are starting to come on the market will find traction and the entire hardware stack will run on open source firmware.
- https://github.com/OpenIPC/linux/tree/ingenic-t31: v3.10.14
- https://github.com/OpenIPC/linux/tree/ingenic-t40: v4.4.94
etc.
That's the problem with vendors forking the kernel: downstream users are often left with unmaintained branches that will accumulate CVEs over time...