Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-11 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Markus Rechberger > wrote: >> I've seen alot projects failing due not having enough users >> If it should mainly remain a hacker only project then a kernel module >> should be fine. > sorry ? > >>

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-11 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/10/2010 10:14 PM, Markus Rechberger wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar >>  wrote: >>> >>> The bounty is already taken by that developer. >>> >>> But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-11 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 11/10/2010 10:14 PM, Markus Rechberger wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: The bounty is already taken by that developer. But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. Maybe still need more work to be rewritten as a kernel modu

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread hermann pitton
Am Donnerstag, den 11.11.2010, 00:36 +0100 schrieb Markus Rechberger: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Antonio Ospite > wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:13:09 +0100 > > Markus Rechberger wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar > >> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Nov

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Markus Rechberger wrote: > I've seen alot projects failing due not having enough users > If it should mainly remain a hacker only project then a kernel module > should be fine. sorry ? > aside of that you can just debug userspace drivers with gdb, valgrind > etc.

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Antonio Ospite wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:13:09 +0100 > Markus Rechberger wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite >> > wrote: >> >> If there are arguments against

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:13:09 +0100 Markus Rechberger wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar > wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite > > wrote: > >> If there are arguments against a kernel driver I can't see them yet. [...] > > If I want to use t

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite > wrote: >> If there are arguments against a kernel driver I can't see them yet. > > +1 > This device is a webcam+(other things), it should be handled similar > to other webcams alr

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite wrote: > If there are arguments against a kernel driver I can't see them yet. +1 This device is a webcam+(other things), it should be handled similar to other webcams already supported inside the kernel. If we make an exception now, we should make

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Antonio Ospite wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:14:36 +0100 > Markus Rechberger wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar >> wrote: >> > The bounty is already taken by that developer. >> > >> > But now, the Kinect thing is supported lik

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:14:36 +0100 Markus Rechberger wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar > wrote: > > The bounty is already taken by that developer. > > > > But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. > > Maybe still need more work to be rew

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Antonio Ospite wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:54:58 +0100 > Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > >> The bounty is already taken by that developer. >> > > Which surely deserves it :) And then there´s the clueless Ziff-Gates writers who call this Piracy... http://www.

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > The bounty is already taken by that developer. > > But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. > Maybe still need more work to be rewritten as a kernel module. > This should better remain in userspace and i

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:54:58 +0100 Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > The bounty is already taken by that developer. > Which surely deserves it :) > But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. > Maybe still need more work to be rewritten as a kernel module. > > The device

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:11:59 -0500 Steven Toth wrote: > On 11/10/10 10:54 AM, Antonio Ospite wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:40 +0100 > > Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: [...] > >> http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git > >> > > > > Good, if anyone is willing to provide the hardware I

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
The bounty is already taken by that developer. But now, the Kinect thing is supported like a GPL userspace library. Maybe still need more work to be rewritten as a kernel module. The device has also a microphone (still need to be hacked), an accelerometer and even a motor/engine. The design shoul

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Andy Walls
IFixit has a tear down mentioning all the chips and a reference design http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kinect-Teardown/4066/1 There's two camera sensors, an ir illuminator, four microphones, a motor, and apparently a built in usb hub. It supposedly consumes more power than a standard u

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
Thanks for your interest. The developers are connected to #openkinect channel on Freenode. The one who shipped this code is marcan on that channel. i -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo inf

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Steven Toth
On 11/10/10 10:54 AM, Antonio Ospite wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:40 +0100 > Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > >> MS Kinect interfacing via libusb released >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks >> >> http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git >> > > Good, if anyone is willing to p

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Antonio Ospite
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:20:40 +0100 Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > MS Kinect interfacing via libusb released > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks > > http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git > Good, if anyone is willing to provide the hardware I think I can help with a proper gspc

Re: Bounty for the first Open Source driver for Kinect

2010-11-10 Thread Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
MS Kinect interfacing via libusb released http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git i -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.k