On Sunday 21 March 2010 00:09:16 Hans de Goede wrote: > 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. But these three are trivial to convert and the c-qcam can actually be tested. Because of that I see no reason to drop the support for this. > > > - 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. This looks like it might be a lot more work, so at some point we will have to decide to either convert or drop it. > > <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 -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by TANDBERG -- 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
