Hi,
On 07/03/2009 08:21 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Hi Joel,
Em Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:10:45 +0000
Joel Jordan<[email protected]> escreveu:
Has there been any work done on the eMPIA Silvercrest EM2710 (device for
webcams)?
I borrowed a Silvercrest 1.3 Mpix camera, based on em2710 and mt9v011 with a
friend, at the end of a conference that happened last week. After spending some
spare time on it at the airplane while returning back home, I discovered how to
enable stream on it.
My that webcam has done some interesting travelling (me -> Dough -> you), I'm
glad
it finally ended at someone who has managed to get it to produce a picture
under Linux.
Basically, there were just a very few registers that was needing a different
initialization, plus a driver to the sensor inside.
Could you please test the latest development code and see if this works for you
also?
It is at:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb
The driver is the em28xx. As the camera uses the generic vendor usb id
(eb1a:2820), you'll need to force the driver to load the proper card
parameters, by using card=71 at module probing. This can be done by calling:
modprobe em28xx card=71
Or by adding an options line on your /etc/modprobe.conf (or the equivalent file
on your machine):
options em28xx card=71
You need to do one of the above procedures _before_ plug the camera, or
otherwise it will take the generic entry that won't work.
Hmm, having to specify the card=71 parameter, sucks, that makes this a very non
plug
and play / not just working experience for end users. Question would it be
possible to
modify the em28xx driver to, when it sees the generic usb-id, setup the i2c
controller
approriately and then check:
1) If there is anything at the i2c address of the mt9v011 sensor
2) Read a couple of identification registers (often sensors have special non
changing
registers for this)
3) If both the 1 and 2 test succeed set card to 71 itself ?
This is how we handle the problem of having one generic usb-id for a certain
bridge, with
various different sensors used in different cams, I know the em28xx is a lot
more complicated
as it does a lot more, but this may still work ?
Regards,
Hans
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