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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi Brad,

If you are not in the freebsd multimedia mailing list please do join in.
Do keep the same interface so both OSes can benefit from the apps.
In the event that you wish to add / or change an IOCTL please post
on the multimedia mailing list for review.

For now , I rather keep both sources separate the driver is just one
file and I am afraid that if we decide to start supporting other OSes
that it will start to be more complicated than what it is.

This is the Bt848 Project  web page:
 http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Bt848.html

	Cheers,
	Amancio
	
>From The Desk Of Brad Parker :
> 
> Hi!
> 
> First off I'd like to thank you for all the work you've done on
> freebsd a/v.  I've certainly benefited.
> 
> Due to a twist of fate I'm spending more time on Linux these days.
> I'm trying to use a BT848 based card.  The linux driver I've found is,
> well, rather poor.  It barely works doing capture-to-screen.
> 
> I've started porting the freebsd driver to linux - in the process I
> split it up in to freebsd specific parts, linux specific parts and
> common parts.  Naturally I want to support vat, so I want the existing
> ioctl's to work.
> 
> Is this interesting?  Is it a waste of time? (I'll probably do it any,
> even if it is :-)
> 
> I'd also like to use the various tools you guys are building, etc...
> 
> what do you think?
> 
> -brad
>