From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 17 8:12:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (gatekeeper.orem.verio.net [192.41.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0BE37B404 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 08:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DECFB3BF18E for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:12:31 -0600 (MDT) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4HFCUd24419; Fri, 17 May 2002 09:12:30 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:29:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift X-X-Sender: To: Marco Molteni Cc: Carlos Ugarte , Subject: Re: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB) In-Reply-To: <20020517072741.9472.qmail@cobweb.example.org> Message-ID: <20020517092727.E82061-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 May 2002, Marco Molteni wrote: > [Bcc to -multimedia] > > On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:21:14 -0400, Carlos Ugarte wrote: > > > I'm working on a similar project - a FreeBSD driver for the Philips > > webcams based on the Linux pwc driver. It's nowhere near working yet, Would it be easier to just use the ugen driver and write a 'userland-only' utility that leveraged the ugen driver's ability to already talk to the device? Seems like that would save you a lot of hassle in developing working code. There are, however, some bennefits to having a driver - just wanted to mention this possible solution. Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message