Removing: bktr(4) Brooktree Video Capture card
Rebecca Cran
rebecca at bsdio.com
Wed Feb 26 00:58:21 UTC 2020
On 2/25/20 5:46 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> I think that the time has come to remove bktr(4) from the tree. This is for
> PCI-only hardware that can't do better than SD capture. For its time
> (~2000) it was a cool card. However, it's no longer relevant to FreeBSD and
> is completely unused as far as I can tell. The bread crumbs in my searches
> end around 2006 in the NYCBUG dmesg database.
Goodness, that brings back memories! I had one of the Brooktree Bt848
based Hauppauge WinTV cards back in the mid to late 90s. I think I
stopped using it around 2004, so I'd agree it's time to remove it from
the tree.
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Rebecca Cran
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