Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 16:34:18 +0100 From: Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hauppage WinTV-USB Message-ID: <39D9FC7A.BE50F0B0@dante.org.uk> References: <39D74393.ADA2BCBC@dante.org.uk> <39D9F487.506EA735@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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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.
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