On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ronald Bultje wrote: > > to make all calculations, one will need additional buffers (2-3) -> up to > > 7Mb of kernel space. +doublebuffering+additional space for user buffers > > etc... > > +somebody likes to have inhibit user access control, just in the kernel. > If you're talking about a webcam, sure. when I'm talking about a webcam, I'm talking about camera, that compress video onboard. and have 10/100 ethernet output. other cameras are normal, with different types of output. > Or would you want to capture > into vanity? And do you really expect that a top-level lib will require > less memory? I expect, that such library will take USER SPACE memory (if it is possible), and only when a user is watching tv, it is possible to write it for DIFFERNET TYPES OF PROCESSORS (why not?), optimized, and it can be developed separately from the kernel. > > if a user is not watching an image from a camera, why kernel is eating > > memory? > That's not supposed to happen. And either way, you'd need to "fix" the > driver to not do this. Tuukka already said he had plans to do this, so I > see no reason to worry. Ok.
