Em 03-06-2011 02:40, John McMaster escreveu: > I'd like to write a driver for an Anchor Chips (seems to be bought by > Cypress) USB camera Linux driver sold as an AmScope MD1800. It seems > like this implies I need to write a V4L2 driver. The camera does not > seem its currently supported (checked on Fedora 13 / 2.6.34.8) and I did > not find any information on it in mailing list archives. Does anyone > know or can help me identify if a similar camera might already be > supported? I've no idea. Better to wait for a couple days for developers to manifest about that, if they're already working on it. > lsusb gives the following output: > > Bus 001 Device 111: ID 0547:4d88 Anchor Chips, Inc. > > I've started reading the "Video for Linux Two API Specification" which > seems like a good starting point and will move onto using source code as > appropriate. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! You'll find other useful information at linuxtv.org wiki page. The better is to write it as a sub-driver for gspca. The gspca core have already all that it is needed for cameras. So, you'll need to focus only at the device-specific stuff. Cheers, Mauro -- 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
