Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:13:34 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Kevin Downey <redchin@gmail.com> Cc: usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: FreeBSD webcam driver (and more) Message-ID: <20070206001334.A47591@xorpc.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <1d3ed48c0702051633w39c52fa6kf414199e0f1f6e35@mail.gmail.com>; from redchin@gmail.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:33:15PM -0800 References: <20070130170443.A49225@xorpc.icir.org> <1d3ed48c0702051633w39c52fa6kf414199e0f1f6e35@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 04:33:15PM -0800, Kevin Downey wrote: > On 1/30/07, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> 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. > > very cool. But how do you know if it works? what applications can be a good idea would be to read the 'Trying the drivers' section of the page above and do what it says there :) As for the list of application i cannot make one because i have no idea which ones apart from ekiga (which requires a patch on FreeBSD) and the pwcview mentioned in the page. cheers luigi
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