Michael Molino wrote: hi michael, this reply wont help your current state, but maybe your future. i've been writing unix drivers for years, but have yet to do my first linux driver. naturally linux is much like unix, but some differences. i have an interest in your project, clearly the 7 days is history, but if you have an interest, i would consider writing such a driver for linux. i am fully employed at a major san vendor, but crave to return to writing drivers. i could use this project to bootstrap me in that direction while providing you a future solution. as you've learned, drivers are very technical and cant be done in a vacuum. regardless, i've worked with other limitations when i was at sco. that is the Old SCO not the current insane group. anyway, let me know if there remains any interst in this notion. i will also say that in addition to the kernel to hw direction, some knowledge of what your customer wants to use this with is also required. that is, what ever app they are going to use will require some api's that must be defined and developed. let me know, jackc... > > > You could just as well give up then. :). You need product datasheets for > > this. You could reverse engineer parts of it, but not in 7 days. > > Can you be any more specific? I'll try and get the info. Does my boss have a > legitimate concern not wanting to make this info available? > > > Tell him you'll move to another chip manufacturer if he doesn't give > > them (datasheets) out, possibly under NDA, and you might have a chance. > > I work for the camera manufacturer. It's my company that stands to lose out > if our customer can't get the linux driver from us :). > > > Also, don't forget most Linux programmers will prefer open source > > drivers, so if you want closed-source drivers, you'll lose quite some > > interested developers, too... > > I know. I want it to be open source. I actually have nothing to do with this > sale. I'm lowly tech support. :) The only reason I'm being consulted at all > is because I happen to run linux on my laptop and home computer so I know a > little about it. I'm trying to get the company to release it as open source, > but it needs to be written first. Also, keep in mind this is a paying job so > that might pique some people's interest. > > -- > Michael Molino > 973-769-0994 > michaelmolino@xxxxxxx > AIM: NobodysHero01 > "Embrace this moment. Remember. We are eternal. All this pain is an > illusion." > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Craig ImageIntegration 831-684-1375 jackc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
