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Subject: Re: Call for Testers: FreeBSD webcam driver (and more)
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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
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