Hi, 2009/6/3 Erik de Castro Lopo <erik@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi all, > > I'm a senior software engineer [0] with a small startup. Our product > is Linux based and makes use of a 3M pixel camera. Unfortunately, the > camera we have been using for the last 3 years is no longer being > produced. > > We have found two candidate replacement cameras, one with a binary > only driver and user space library and one with a windows driver > but no Linux driver. > > My questions: > > - How difficult is it to create a GPL V4L driver for a USB camera > by snooping the USB traffic of the device when connected to > a windows machine? The intention is to merge this work into > the V4L mainline and ultimately the kernel. Do you have any datasheet available on what usb bridge / sensor that is used? If the chipsets are undocumented and some proprietary image compression technique is used, the time to reverse-engineer them can be quite lengthy. Best regards, Erik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
