patch for vivi test driver

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Thu Feb 28 01:21:00 UTC 2008


Please include this patch in Hardy's kernel:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f905c442e5b19f75fe4e8ce96f2acffa565f2392

vivi stands for Virtual Video - emulates a real video device with v4l2 api - it 
  generates a test pattern.  Because it doesn't rely on hardware, and is 
typically not used in production, I am sure this patch would not have any side 
effects.

I am using vivi to debug some v4l2 code (transcode's v4l2 module:
http://cvs.exit1.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/transcode/import/v4l/import_v4l2.c?view=markup
and a v4l2 driver for some real hardware to be used in 2 weeks.  All so I can 
record 100 hours of Python sessions:  http://chipy.org/V4l2forPyCon which will 
be freely available.

<quote>
The goal of the vivi project was to do a bare minimum "stub" V4L2 driver that 
would produce video output playable with xawtv. ... You can use it as a starting 
point for any video driver you wish to write.
</quote>
http://lwn.net/Articles/203971/

Thanks,

Carl K




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