Re: Interfacing webcam with NetBSD

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 03:41:51PM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > The last message is probably caused by uvideo trying to guess the
> > correct USB "alternate interface" and failing. Then sorry, your
> > camera is not supported yet.
>
> Is it possible to write userspace code (assuming we get device protocol
> information, say by rev engg on another OS) for such devices?

That's what they have over in FreeBSD-land:

http://www.selasky.org/hans_petter/video4bsd/index.html

This relies on Cuse which seems to be a rather more basic version of 
pud(4).

--
Stephen