Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 19:12:06 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU, multimedia@FREEBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel's Smart Video Recorder III Message-ID: <199612121812.TAA02155@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199612120431.UAA05066@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Dec 11, 96 08:31:05 pm
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> For starters, there is no video driver for it as for Pentium Pro > compatibility you simply will have to wait till I finish writing > the driver. It would be a good idea, if the hardware permits, to keep (a subset) the same ioctls of the meteor, so that one can reuse the same software. I find annoying that there isn't a standard set of ioctls for video acquisition boards. Maybe those in the meteor driver are not better than others, but they are relatively flexible, and the meteor/omnimedia are the only boards which are well supported under FreeBSD, so it might be wise to settle on that as a standard. > capture chipset very similar to the Matrox Meteor however its > dma capability is far superior to the Meteor because the > Intel card's dma controller accepts "risc instructions" that is > the dma controller is programmable. can this be used to do some preprocessing of the data or it is just a flexible dma ? Luigi
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