Hi, On 03/20/2010 09:58 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
Hi all, Well, I certainly fired everyone up with my RFC. Based on the replies I got I do think the time is right to start the removal process. Phase 1 would be to convert the remaining V4L1 drivers. To see what needs to be done I decided to analyse the remaining V4L1 drivers: - usbvideo (really four drivers: vicam, ibmcam, konicawc, quickcam_messenger) Hans de Goede added support for the quickcam_messenger to gspca, so that driver is scheduled for removal. Devin has hardware to test the vicam driver. David Ellingsworth has hardware to test the ibmcam driver. It would be great if Devin and David can either send it to Hans de Goede or work on it themselves. The konicawc is for an Intel YC76 webcam. I found one for sale here: http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=6593985 Unfortunately the seller does not ship to the Netherlands or to Norway. Can some kind US developer buy it and donate it to Hans de Goede? It's fairly expensive at $39.99, but it's for a good cause. So in theory all these drivers can be tested and converted. - bw-qcam A parallel port Connectix QuickCam webcam. To my knowledge no one has hardware to test this. However, it should not be hard to convert this to V4L2, even without having hardware since this driver doesn't do any streaming or DMA.
It is parallel port only so lets just drop it.
- c-qcam A parallel port color Connectix QuickCam webcam. To my knowledge no one has hardware to test this. However, it should not be hard to convert this to V4L2, even without having hardware since this driver doesn't do any streaming or DMA.
It is parallel port only so lets just drop it.
- w9966 A parallel port LifeView FlyCam Supra webcam. To my knowledge no one has hardware to test this. However, it should not be hard to convert this to V4L2, even without having hardware since this driver doesn't do any streaming or DMA.
It is parallel port only so lets just drop it.
- cpia_pp Parallel port webcam driver for the Creative Webcam II. I found one on eBay, so with luck I can get hold of the hardware and get it to HdG.
Although I appreaciate your effort in getting this cam into my hands, I don't know what to with it once I have it, my stance on it can be summarized as: It is parallel port only so lets just drop it.
- cpia_usb USB variant of cpia_pp. Deprecated since it is now supported by gspca.
Ack, note that there is no sane way to make the gspca code also support the parallel port version, so if we would like to do that we would have to keep the pp part of the old cpia1 v4l1 driver which could do both pp and usb around, and convert that v4l2. <snip>
So if we all pitch in, then can get everything converted without having to remove drivers.
I'm not sure if the parallel port attached are worth keeping support for. But if someone else is willing to convert those, sure. Regards, Hans -- 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
