From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 3 8:35: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.dante.org.uk (alpha.dante.org.uk [193.63.211.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C228037B503; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 08:34:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from theta.dante.org.uk ([193.63.211.7]) by alpha.dante.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #4) id 13gU5E-0001jz-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 16:34:20 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dante.org.uk) by theta.dante.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #4) id 13gU5C-0005TC-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2000 16:34:18 +0100 Message-ID: <39D9FC7A.BE50F0B0@dante.org.uk> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 16:34:18 +0100 From: Konstantin Chuguev Organization: Delivery of Advanced Networking Service to Europe Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Hardiman Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hauppage WinTV-USB References: <39D74393.ADA2BCBC@dante.org.uk> <39D9F487.506EA735@cs.strath.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roger Hardiman wrote: > Konstantin wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, FreeBSD does not seem to support such cards as > > WinTV-USB > > > Are there any plans of supporting this card, or is there any > > development? > > I'm not aware of anyone working on a driver, but supporting > the WinTV-USB is possible. > Hauppauge have already offered me hardware specs and data > sheets for this product. > This is interesting. I could only find WinTV-PCI specs on the web so far. > > I just do not have time to write a driver myself. > > However, I see you are volunteering. > Great. > Well, I don't want to say it for sure, because I don't have enough time myself. I also cannot guess how long it can take, because I never wrote any drivers. I just digged some of them a little. > > There are two parts to this > first is talking via the USB bus to the hardware. > Yes. I have got a USB specs from their web site and lots of working USB driver sources :-) > > The second part is implementing the same ioctl interface > as the bktr driver (although that is not compulsory) > and I can help there. > The same interface sounds quite reasonable to provide compatibility with existing software. I do not understand quite right where the I2C interface goes in case of USB driver though. I read something about i2c-usb bridge driver in Linux mailing lists recently, but I didn't catch the point... So, if you don't expect to write anything useful yourself in the next few months, I would like to try :-) Regards, Konstantin. -- * * Konstantin Chuguev - Application Engineer * * Francis House, 112 Hills Road * Cambridge CB2 1PQ, United Kingdom D A N T E WWW: http://www.dante.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message