Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> On Monday 30 June 2008, Adrian Sergiu DARABANT wrote:
>> It will help in fact for almost ALL new cameras as UVC is a must for Vista
>> hardware compatibiity Certification. Provided we can help Laurent bring it
>> to perfection we will have ideally full webcam support on Linux. :)
>
> Don't be over-optimistic. I expect new webcams to be as buggy as the current
> ones. Most of them are tested in Windows only and often suffer from various
> timing issues that can't be worked around by the Linux UVC driver.
>
> However, you're right, most new webcams will have Linux support out of the
> box.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart
Off topic:
It is interesting to see how two opposite forces push for same thing:
Linux wants standard devices to have less drivers and wider support
Microsoft wants standard devices so they can reduce number of drivers to lock
down the system hard.
(Imagine having only standard compliant devices, then windows kernel can
completely signed and locked)
And Linux wins at the end since you can always unlock the windows by replacing
it with Linux.
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
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