On 1/31/07, Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think I reached a first interesting milestone in my project to build an emulation layer to compile linux device drivers on FreeBSD.I managed to build a FreeBSD port of the linux 'gspca' driver (which claims to support 228 different webcams) with basically no modifications to the original source. So it would be good if someone could give a try to this code, either on -current or -stable, keeping in mind that this is NOT PRODUCTION READY yet. More details on how the thing works are at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html together of course with source code, and even binary modules for FreeBSD 6.2. Basically I would like to know how it builds/works on -current, have reports on cameras that work with it and those which don't and so on. The driver supports the Video4Linux API so it should be useful for a variety of applications. cheers luigi
Luigi, this is great move to have more hardware support for FreeBSD, and I wish we could port and use more linux drivers as well, for xorg and other things like CardReader for laptops ..etc, thank you for going to the right direction ;) I tried to compile it the ports since I have builtin webcam, and usb webcam but I got these msgs about my old usd stack. Aspire5102# make clean && make install ===> Cleaning for linux-kmod-compat-20070202 ===> linux-kmod-compat-20070202 is marked as broken: Requires a recent USB stack. you have 602000. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/linux-kmod-compat. I'm using FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Sat Feb 3 16:14:33 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN i386 -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
