On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > What are relations to > > > > Linux kernel that you mentioned? How this can be avoided? > > > > > > If I understand it correctly, webcamd at > > > https://github.com/hselasky/webcamd > > > was started as a user-space daemon that provides Linux USB Kernel > > > functions, so that relevant Linux-based webcam drivers can somehow > > > be integrated. > > > > > > At least that's how HPS announced it in 2010: > > > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-usb/2010-January/008069.html > > > > Yeah. It resides in the userland because of GPLv2 license, so it > > cannot be just copy-pasted into the new in-kernel webcam code which > > must be BSD licensed. Also because it supports ~1500 devices the > > rewrite may not be feasible? > > From what I learned about AI coding success stories, not much is > 'not feasible' any longer. > > > Because "daemon currently depends on libc, pthreads, libusb and > > libcuse" there is not much kernel involved right? > > Except the Linux > > kernel is a moving target so the copy-paste into webcamd may not > > always be trivial :-P > > Yes, I think this is why kuon mentioned Linux kernel topics.
True true :-) Very nice to hear amazingly helpful and useful HPS work is continued! :-) When HPS created LibUSB compatible stack here that was my "switch for good to FreeBSD" moment as I daily work with embedded stuff. Right now I have two 8 port and five 16 ports USB HUBs for boards development and testing. Man I miss him. Thank You HPS :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
