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Re: Quickcam device driver for Linux
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> As much as I hate the portability headaches, I would support an effort to
> create a kernel driver to pass bytes directly (no buffering, translation,
> etc) from the camera to a read() call. Any (de)compression, dithering, or
> resizing should be done in userspace, where malloc() is cheap and
> processes can be preempted.
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> --Patrick
I'd agree with this, with the following proviso - that one could query the
device (via ioctl) to find out what output format the data would be. Having a
/dev/camera that just pumped out raw data without having some way of knowing
what the output format was would be a severe pain.
Stephen
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