On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 11:29:42PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> > thats just what i'm talking about, rtv is a generic interface for frame
> > grabbers used by many cards on solaris. the reson i don't like the bktr
> > interface is that its very specific to the bktr (bt878), so it wouldn't
> > work so well for your SAA7110, or my SAA9051 & SAA7191 and what ever the
> > planb/sixty6 hardware on 7300-8600's have, as well as many more cards.
> > its sort of like wscons, fbio, if, etc. of cores,
> Ok, so I'll dig up some documentation about that. I just don't want to end up with a mess like certain drivers for a certain other free UNIXish OS :)

Another possibility is to support the v4l2 API like Linux does.

> > it doesn't exist in netbsd yet, but time can fix that ;)
> Agreed ;)

It falls in the same category as rtv, but there are probably more
applications for it :)
 Thomas