On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 15:53 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > There are two drivers for those cameras: > > > > -the 1.x driver who is in the kernel and is basically useless since the > > only OV511 cameras who are not by today standards as obsolete as a 20 > > Mhz 386 don't work with it. > > > > -the 2.x driver at alpha.dyndns.com/ov511. This is the only one who > > works with > > the late models who used this chip (and the ones who are still useful). > > Probelm is that the author has not updated its site in two years and > > that it no longer compiles with present day kernel. I fixed it for > > 2.6.16 kernels and sent the patches to the author but got no answer. > > And kernel 2.6.24 (I think) broke it again (or more exactly made it > > no longer compile). > > > > Question if I fix it again what are the chances it ends in Fedora? How > > are orphaned drivers handled in the kernel? Someone, who doesn't seem > > to be the original author, has been ensuring the 1.x continues compiling > > in 2.6.27 despite the changes in interface. > > > > JF Martinez > > > > > > Hi JF, > > Most webcam based driver development now a days happens within / on top of the > gspcav2 framework, which has been merged into the 2.6.27 kernel. gspcav2 > already supports ov519 based cams, adding support to the existing driver for > ov518 based cams should be easy, as those are mostly the same. The big > difference is that ov518 based cams use a slightly non standard form of JPEG > compression one of the first things that need doing is adding support for this > compression to libv4l. > > Would you be interested in working on this? Here are some references explaining > how to get the latest gspca driver, and about the why, how and what of libv4l > http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/6630.html > http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/6317.html > http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/3636.html > Yes but I am no C programmer. In case you thought that because I fixed the OV511 I was one the fixng I did was cosmetic (changing includes, things who had been renamed). However I will se what I can do and to begin with I can test. > You can get the latest libv4l here: > http://people.atrpms.net/~hdegoede/libv4l-0.5.6.tar.gz > > Regards, > > Hans > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
