Out of the box working hardware makes for happy end users and good reviews.
benq dual mode camera bridge (done as of 2.6.33-0.49.rc8.git4).
mr97310a dual mode camera bridge (done as of 2.6.33rc2).
Help upstream and specifically Theodore Kilgore from gphoto2 to get kernel drivers supporting the streaming mode of dual mode cameras (still cams which can act as webcams) into the mainline kernel, specifically for the following chipsets:.
ovfx2 webcam bridge (done as of 2.6.33rc2).
w996Xcf dual mode camera bridge (done as of 2.6.33rc2).
stv0680 dual mode camera bridge (done as of 2.6.33rc2).
Clean up existing out of tree drivers, moving the decompression to libv4l where needed and merge them into the mainline, specifically the following ones:.
Try to make the ever growing list of upside down mounted laptop webcams as complete as possible, so people will not have any upside down issues out of the box.
If you have old cams to donate please contact me! I need access to cams for this! As you can see in the matrix below I already have quite a few of them, most of which were bought from my own money especially for this.
Lots of testing and bugfixing / improving of existing in kernel drivers.
This third push for better webcam contains of 4 pieces: Have a library (libv4l) for decompressing various proprietary video formats in userspace, and almost all webcam using applications have been patched to use this library. The Better Webcam support feature for F-10 has done much of the groundwork needed for properly supporting webcams in Linux. The Better Webcam support feature for F-10 and F-12 has added support for many webcams, but there still are models which are unsupported the goal of this feature is to get even more webcams supported out of the box, with a special focus on so called