Emulation of Linux V4L ioctls

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 20 08:04:46 UTC 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 03:31:59PM -0500, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:
> I have added support for emulation of the Linux V4L video ioctls
> in compat/linux/linux_ioctl.[ch].
> 
> I am not a committer; the work can be found here:
> 	http://opal.com/freebsd/sys/compat/linux/
> These diffs are made to the 8.0-rc3 sources.
> 
> This enables webcam video to work using the linux-skype port
> and a pwcbsd-based camera.  I expect it will also allow any other
> linux-port to work now, but have only tested with skype.
> 
> I have noticed, however, that flash-based webcam apps cause
> the npviewer.bin process to hang, so that is not yet working.
> Anyone with thoughts on what is going on in the various flash
> support layers is welcome to comment on this.

I just glanced over it but it looks good...


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