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Date:      Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:10:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VM question (QCAM question) 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809051806460.2918-100000@zone.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <15104.905021203@time.cdrom.com>

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Well, hell, maybe I need to start a complete reimplimentation of the
QuickCam driver!! In the short term, though, I can work on a few things:
	* VC support (at least to make it not crash!)
		- I have access to a QuickCam VC, so I can certainly test
it out; I will attempt to look for more information regarding the
protocol, but if I run into any NDA's, I'm not gonna be able to contribute
any code I make :(
	* ppbus support... sure, don't see that being way too hard
Any caveats for me before I start with the VC stuff?

Cheers,
Brian Feldman

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Tiny change of subject here, but this is brought up now: the QuickCam
> > driver was dropped out of -CURRENT do to "lack of interest"... well why?
> 
> I don't think anyone wanted to maintain it, and the usermode quickcam
> stuff seemed to do everything that the kernel quickcam stuff did
> without also crashing the system when you plugged a QuickCam VC (the
> new color model) in.
> 
> > Many other things only have niche users, but are still here (things being
> > drivers). I've already gotten the qcam driver to work perfectly on a 3.0
> > system, so I could easily post all the code to remerge in. Failing that-as
> 
> Does that include the VC?  As I said before, having the system crash
> because a novice user has plugged in a different model is not a recipe
> for success when it comes to tech support, and if you're willing to
> solve that problem as well (and no, I don't have a VC for you - I gave
> that to the last guy who promised to fix this and have heard nothing
> back since :) then I certainly have no objection to seeing it come
> back.
> 
> - Jordan
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