Anyone working on V4L2 for BSD?

[Julian Elischer]

Christian Gusenbauer wrote:

>Hi!
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>On Tuesday, 12. April 2005 22:14, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>Jacob Meuser wrote:
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>>>I'd much rather see the problems fixed than a shim added to it.
>>>how about working about multiple frame buffers?  that's probably need
>>>for many V4L2 programs.  IMO, it would be better (maybe even easier)
>>>to rewrite bktr with a V4L2 interface than to try to add V4L2 to it.
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>>I wasn't planning on either, but rather making a v4l2 framework to allow
>>drivers and utilities to hook to each other.. whether the bktr driver
>>gets rewritten
>>or shimmed is an orthogonal question :-)
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>Well, that's exactly what I wrote some years ago. There's on one hand the v4l2 
>framework and on the other hand there's a driver (in my case, it's a bktr 
>one) which registers itself at the v4l2 framework. Then, the latter creates 
>the device nodes and the applications use these nodes to get in contact with 
>the driver. Julian, I think that's what you are looking for, isn't it?
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yes
I'd like to look at what you got done..
I'm also trying to contact the Linux developers about the ability to use 
their .h file directly.
having a V4L interface available will make such things as gnomemeeting 
and SANE
porting a LOT easier. 


>Ciao,
>Christian.
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