Changelog
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ChangeLog
23/06/2008 - 1.5.8:
- Added support for kernels >= 2.6.26
Thanks to Armando Basile for reporting and fixing !
02/04/2008 - 1.5.7:
- Added support for another VF0350 Live ! Camera
Thanks to Spaceman Spiff for reporting
- Fixed LED on Live! webcams. Still needs some work.
Thanks to Bartlomiej Celary for reporting and patching
11/02/2008 - 1.5.6:
- Added support for VF0470 Live! Cam Notebook
Thanks to Axel for reporting
- Added support for Live! Cam Notebook Pro
Thanks to Jean Schurger for reporting
- Added unblocking workaroudn for various applications
Contributed by SebTV on skype forums. As he says, this a workaround, but light enough to worth being applied.. Reference
26/01/2008 - 1.5.5:
- Fixed compilation with 2.6.24 kernels.
Thanks to Klinski Mirko
- Fixed compilation when compat ioctl is not available.
Thanks to Marco Cammarata
08/12/2007 - 1.5.4:
- Added support for Creative Live! Cam VF0350
By Martin Laberge.
- Made ov51x-jpeg work in 32 bit userland on a 64 bit kernel
Thanks to Thomas Bächler
01/11/2007 - 1.5.3:
- Added support for Creative Vista Webcam VF0420
Thanks to Julius Pfrommer
- Another try to fix the regression which prevents webcams to be initialized if plugged through a usb hub..
- Fixed complation warning
Thanks to Laszlo Kajan
21/07/2007 - 1.5.2:
- Added support for Creative Vista Webcam VF0330
25/05/2007 - 1.5.1:
- Reverted nasty i2c changes since 0.5.4
- Cleaned up version string
30/04/2007 - 1.5.0:
- Changed unused jpeginfo parameter in favour of dumpjpeg which allow dumpix raw JPEG frames
- Added test/getjpeg application which allows to dump raw JPEG frames to file.
- Added support for Creative IM Live ! webcams.
- Added back /proc interface, can be located at /proc/ov51x-jpeg
- Hacked a snapshot buton suport for ov519, ov518 owner should contact us to get this to work too...
Many thanks to Matt Reeve and Sam Skipsey for, respectively, setting up a test machine and merging kernel's ov7670 driver into the module !
15/03/2007 - 1.0.0:
- Dropped support for kernels <= 2.6.18
- Merged decompression code into main module
- Renamed main module to ov51x-jpeg
28/09/2006 - 0.5.4:
- Added support for 2.6.18 kernel
04/05/2006 - 0.5.3:
- Reactivated unit_video parameter that was badly removed from last release..
Thanks to Theodoros V. Kalamatianos for reporting and patching!!
27/04/2006 - 0.5.2:
- Added a work around for MODULE_PARM being deprecated.
Thanks to Kovács András and Kwa29 for reporting and debugging.
24/03/2006 - 0.5.1:
- Added support for kernel >= 2.6.16.
Thanks to Ronny Prinse and Kovács András for pointing this.
19/09/2005 - 0.5:
Markus Tavenrath:
- Fixed corrupted lines at beginning of frame
- Fixed wrong information returned by get_frame_length
28/08/2005 - 04:
- Better software downsizing, more than a dirty hack this time!
Big big thanks to Stuart R. Harper!!
25/07/2005 - 0.3:
- Added software downsizing - Many Thanks to Stuart R. Harper!
- Corected makefile to allow proper install for 2.6 kernels with 2.6.xx.xx-foo names.
16/06/2005 - 0.2: fixed an incorrect makefile for kernels 2.4, thanks to MurDok
13/05/2005 - 0.1: first public release.

