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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
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Subject: Re: videobuf
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:43:16 +0100
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On Tuesday 30 October 2007 16:28, Robert Woodworth wrote:
> I'm  working on building a v4l2 driver for an FPGA module on a Xilinx
> Virtex4 PPC.
>
> Question:
> Why does the v4l2 videobuf *depend* on PCI?

Historical reasons I guess. The videobuf module has been designed for PCI=20
hardware (bttv if I'm not mistaken). Now that other, non-PCI devices would=
=20
benefit from videobuf, PCI-specific support is being moved to a separate=20
module.

Search the video4linux mailing list archive for discussions about videobuf=
=20
cleanup. You can get the latest source tree at www.linuxtv.org.

Best regards,

=2D-=20
Laurent Pinchart
CSE Semaphore Belgium

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