Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:50:09 +0000 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "Luigi Rizzo" <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: usb@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Testers: FreeBSD webcam driver (and more) Message-ID: <499c70c0702030850v14e02dfck7a0b91e1cc6deb9b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070130170443.A49225@xorpc.icir.org> References: <20070130170443.A49225@xorpc.icir.org>
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On 1/31/07, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> wrote: > I think I reached a first interesting milestone in my project > to build an emulation layer to compile linux device drivers on FreeBSD. > > I managed to build a FreeBSD port of the linux 'gspca' driver (which claims > to support 228 different webcams) with basically no modifications to > the original source. So it would be good if someone could give a try > to this code, either on -current or -stable, keeping in mind that > this is NOT PRODUCTION READY yet. > > More details on how the thing works are at > > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html > > together of course with source code, and even binary modules > for FreeBSD 6.2. > Basically I would like to know how it builds/works on -current, > have reports on cameras that work with it and those which don't > and so on. The driver supports the Video4Linux API so it should > be useful for a variety of applications. > > cheers > luigi Luigi, this is great move to have more hardware support for FreeBSD, and I wish we could port and use more linux drivers as well, for xorg and other things like CardReader for laptops ..etc, thank you for going to the right direction ;) I tried to compile it the ports since I have builtin webcam, and usb webcam but I got these msgs about my old usd stack. Aspire5102# make clean && make install ===> Cleaning for linux-kmod-compat-20070202 ===> linux-kmod-compat-20070202 is marked as broken: Requires a recent USB stack. you have 602000. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat. I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Sat Feb 3 16:14:33 UTC 2007 arabian@Aspire5102:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN i386 -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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