Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:17:10 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: usb@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: FreeBSD webcam driver (and more) Message-ID: <45BFEE16.1080605@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20070130170443.A49225@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20070130170443.A49225@xorpc.icir.org>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > I think I reached a first interesting milestone in my project > to build an emulation layer to compile linux device drivers on FreeBSD. > > I managed to build a FreeBSD port of the linux 'gspca' driver (which claims > to support 228 different webcams) with basically no modifications to > the original source. So it would be good if someone could give a try > to this code, either on -current or -stable, keeping in mind that > this is NOT PRODUCTION READY yet. > > More details on how the thing works are at > > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html > > together of course with source code, and even binary modules > for FreeBSD 6.2. > Basically I would like to know how it builds/works on -current, > have reports on cameras that work with it and those which don't > and so on. The driver supports the Video4Linux API so it should > be useful for a variety of applications. project "not_quite_as_evil" ? > > cheers > luigi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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