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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:47:10 +0100
From:      Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which Userland Interface for USB Video Class Driver? 
Message-ID:  <200809232147.VAA07078@sopwith.solgatos.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:32:47 PDT." <949626.72396.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> 

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> > I would write/port a driver for USB video class for FreeBSD's 
> > new USB stack (usb2). OpenBSD and NetBSD both has had their 
> > own implementations for the device class as some people referred 
> > to recently. But which userland interface, bktr(4) or V4L2, should 
> > I use for the driver? 
> 
>   We've only got two choices: 
>   -- bktr is dead, 

Not dead.  We will need bktr support for many years.

>   It only supports analog -- analog is a dead end too.

We will need analog video support for many years.

>   V4L2 has a well defined interface,

Are you saying the penguins got something right?
That would be... unusual.



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