Hi, > I think that is wrong.
Yes, this is completely wrong. Things goes exactly in the reverse orde :) > the newer versions of uvcvideo require another > tool to load firmware (it was being patched before). Laurent Pinchard, linux-uvc author, never accepted the isight patch including kernel-space firmware loader. And this is a wise decision. I reworked the patch which goes from 20K to 7K and implement isight-firmware-tools to properly load the firmware. The patch has been accepted upstream. I moved the extraction code in userspace as isight-firmware-tools. I also splitted extraction and loading of the firmware, saving use to have a AppleUSBVideoSupport file lost in /lib/firmwares ;). HAL is meant to do additionnal job on device in order to get them ready to use. So ift just do it the right way, as it has been designed for. Something nice would have been to use generic firmware loading (see unmaintained fxload). Ubuntu shipped isight_usb along uvcvideo, but now, isight_usb is redundant with uvcvideo and ift. It can even be annoying. Something nice would be to be able to download the driver and extract the firmware automatically. I never found where to find this driver. Neither for Windows® nor Mac OS X (and Combo Update weight hundreds of megabytes). I wish this mail clarify the situation. Please tell me if we need something like a wikipage, better launchpad project page description or anything else. Regards, Étienne. -- E Ultreïa ! -- uvcvideo: iSight firmware loading does not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185634 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
