first v4l release

[Peter Pregler]

Hi all,

I will send Jarl my current v4l-release in a few minutes. Note that this is
still a alpha-release. So better read the README.v4l. I am pretty sure that it
will not crash most of the boxes out there immediatly. But for other things I
cannot give any guarantee. ;) Compared to the ppcpia-module you should get a
better frame rate and a nicer interface to write programs. The down side is
right now that the used kernel-thread is not totally nice to user-programs,
i.e. your mouse might jump from time to time. Any comments on how to improve
this (see function fetch_frame_timer in v4l.c source) are _highly_ welcome.
Additionally, not all features of the camera are supported by the driver. This
is due to the limited  scope of the v4l-API. If you find any backdoors in the
API you can implement any additional proprietary functions (control/set auto
exposure, gain, ...) in no time. For anything else please really read the
README.v4l in the source.

Enjoy, Peter

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