V4L v2.0 support coming on FreeBSD 6+

Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri almarrie at gmail.com
Sun May 27 11:08:25 UTC 2007


On 5/26/07, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just want to notify you that I am working on generic V4L support on FreeBSD
> 6+. I have made several changes to your "videodev.h" and the kernel side
> header file.
>
> In general:
>
> Put an "u" after unnamed unions.
>
> Typedef "struct file" to "v4l2_file_t", because on FreeBSD this structure is
> different.
>
> Factored out getting and setting private data on a "v4l2_file_t" structure.
>
> This will make porting dual licensed Video drivers easier.
>
> See:
>
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=120419
>
> --HPS

This is really great!, I can't wait for it, thank you! :)


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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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