1W9966 Camera driver, written by Jakob Kemi (jakob.kemi@telia.com)
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3After a lot of work in softice & wdasm, reading .pdf-files and tiresome
4trial-and-error work I've finally got everything to work. I needed vision for a
5robotics project so I borrowed this camera from a friend and started hacking.
6Anyway I've converted my original code from the AVR 8bit RISC C/ASM code into
7a working Linux driver.
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9To get it working simply configure your kernel to support
10parport, ieee1284, video4linux and w9966
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12If w9966 is statically linked it will always perform aggressive probing for
13the camera. If built as a module you'll have more configuration options.
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15Options:
16 modprobe w9966.o pardev=parport0(or whatever) parmode=0 (0=auto, 1=ecp, 2=epp)
17voila!
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19you can also type 'modinfo -p w9966.o' for option usage
20(or checkout w9966.c)
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22The only thing to keep in mind is that the image format is in Y-U-Y-V format
23where every two pixels take 4 bytes. In SDL (www.libsdl.org) this format
24is called VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV422 (16 bpp).
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26A minimal test application (with source) is available from:
27  http://www.slackwaresupport.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO
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29The slow framerate is due to missing DMA ECP read support in the
30parport drivers. I might add working EPP support later.
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32Good luck!
33    /Jakob Kemi
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