Subject: Re: framegrabber drivers?
To: Brook Milligan <brook@trillium.NMSU.Edu>
From: Ruibiao Qiu <ruibiao@arl.wustl.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 08/12/1998 12:51:59
Hello, Brook

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Brook Milligan wrote:

>I am interested in using a netbsd box to capture images from a CCD
>camera via a framegrabber.  As far as I know, there are no netbsd
>drivers for such things.  However, there are various linux drivers for
>boards I am interested in.

We locally are using Meteor grabbers on NetBSD.  The driver is
ported from FreeBSD.  I recently touched it to upgrade it to new
NetBSD PCI mapping interfaces.  

>Does anyone have any idea how difficult it would be to port linux
>framegrabber drivers to netbsd?  Would anyone be interested/willing to
>assist with that?  What gotchas are involved?

If interested using Meteor grabbers, please contact me through
private mail.

Hope this hopes.

          Regards

            Ruibiao

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