Fred Clift writes: > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Marco Molteni wrote: > > > [Bcc to -multimedia] > > > > On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:21:14 -0400, Carlos Ugarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm working on a similar project - a FreeBSD driver for the Philips > > > webcams based on the Linux pwc driver. It's nowhere near working yet, > > > Would it be easier to just use the ugen driver and write a 'userland-only' > utility that leveraged the ugen driver's ability to already talk to the > device? Seems like that would save you a lot of hassle in developing > working code. There are, however, some bennefits to having a driver - > just wanted to mention this possible solution.
That occurred to me, as I have seen the solution work first hand in another case. I have a Canon S110 "Digital Elph" still camera that unfortunately does not conform to the USB mass storage standard. That said, it is possible to get it to work with FreeBSD - there is a program by the name of s10sh that makes use of libusb (and ugen) to speak the language of the S110. I agree that doing something at user level would probably be easier than working on a driver. That said, I opted to work on a device driver instead for a couple of reasons. One is that I think it would be easier to drum up support from more applications if the device is given its own kernel space driver (even though a user space library might provide most of the same functionality). Another was that I did not feel familiar enough with USB (the standard) or ugen (the device driver) to know how well this would work. And then there is the process of writing a device driver - though the goal is to support a set of webcams, the "side effect" of learning more about the kernel and devices in general is what interested me the most. Carlos -- Carlos A. Ugarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
