Can you give me some reference materials on writing drivers for video capture devices. I am fairly new to writing drivers. All i know is c, C++ and some very basic file systems hacking on minx from school. Thanks in Advance
-Aditya On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:28 PM, raja pavan <[email protected]> wrote: > So please specify your requirement. > > What do you want in the android kernel about drivers. > > Android drivers is the common thing, so what else do you want? > > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Chris Stratton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > grep "open_binder", "/dev/ashmem" in the android source code . This will >> > provide you clue on how android utilizes the drivers. >> >> While binder is a kernel driver, it's used primarily for communication >> between userspace components, not between the userspace components and >> functionality in the kernel. >> >> But most functionality in the kernel that is android specific rather >> than generic *nix (and even some that is standard but semi privileged) >> likely uses binder to connect the application to an android service in >> userspace, which in turn uses one of a variety of interface into the >> kernel. >> >> -- >> unsubscribe: >> [email protected]<android-kernel%[email protected]> >> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel >> > > -- > unsubscribe: > [email protected]<android-kernel%[email protected]> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel > -- Aditya Mukherjee Rutgers University Department Of Computer Science -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
