From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 3 17:15:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF8816A402 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5043013C461 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 17:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from almarrie@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so1159516nzh for ; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:15:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VFhAAOJ0ra4uJbkqynuLqjCAQ88Yz64Jjy3yxBXzQqURQs1gavLFu86cSh8A2H23jTPdGOSMPMXMwyWIS1N3FbAQVYk0zkcW9Aw5YW3RMd2A7w/MZXFIPwdadNH+/8m5pjWXo+a+FAkZLsbgs6RVaTQHDFREqntE4kmuCXMJAjs= Received: by 10.114.75.1 with SMTP id x1mr472006waa.1170521410103; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 08:50:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.91.7 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:50:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <499c70c0702030850v14e02dfck7a0b91e1cc6deb9b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:50:09 +0000 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" To: "Luigi Rizzo" In-Reply-To: <20070130170443.A49225@xorpc.icir.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070130170443.A49225@xorpc.icir.org> Cc: usb@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: FreeBSD webcam driver (and more) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:15:37 -0000 On 1/31/07, 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. > > cheers > luigi Luigi, this is great move to have more hardware support for FreeBSD, and I wish we could port and use more linux drivers as well, for xorg and other things like CardReader for laptops ..etc, thank you for going to the right direction ;) I tried to compile it the ports since I have builtin webcam, and usb webcam but I got these msgs about my old usd stack. Aspire5102# make clean && make install ===> Cleaning for linux-kmod-compat-20070202 ===> linux-kmod-compat-20070202 is marked as broken: Requires a recent USB stack. you have 602000. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat. I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Sat Feb 3 16:14:33 UTC 2007 arabian@Aspire5102:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN i386 -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/