Subject: Re: QuickCam in NetBSD/mac68k?
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Edward Seth Miller <esmiller@engin.umich.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/19/1997 15:03:41
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> This will principally need two things:
>
> 1. a serial driver that can keep up with the data rate - the QuickCam
> externally clocks the Mac serial ports at some high rate. Opinions on what
> maximum rate NetBSD can do now?
>
> 2. a user-mode program to grab and process the bits from the serial port
> (this will probably need documentation from Connectix, unless there's a
> Linux driver for it?)
There is a Linux driver for it, and apparently it works rather well. (My
friend is using it as we speak...) Porting it may be less than fun,
though...
-Seth Miller