Subject: Re: quickcam port for NetBSD?
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/16/1996 16:34:53
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Dave McGuire wrote:

> > Porting Paul's driver to NetBSD will be trivial-- He's done an excellent
> > job on making it easily cross-platformable.
>
>   Does this perhaps suggest that there'd be some way to support this
> device in a non-PC-architecture machine that has a Centronics-style
> parallel port?

Absolutely...  The only thing the quickcam will need that may not be
available is power (which comes from the PC keyboard connector).  If you
can solve that, you should be able to support the Quickcam on all
platforms that include a standard Centronics parallel port (bidirectional
ports are better, but not required).


Sujal