Tuesday September 05, 2006 Alan Perry's Blog
Tuesday September 05, 2006 Back in January, I had big plans to do regular, technical blogs about IEEE 1394 in Solaris. This started off with plans for a series of blogs describing the Solaris API for accessing 1394-based web- and industrial-cameras (IIDC devices) through the dcam1394 driver. Unfortunately, as I was writing part 2 in that series, I discovered an apparent bug in the dcam1394 driver that affected the sample code that I intended to use to illustrate the APIs.
I had to determine the root cause and then fix that bug. However, while in the middle of doing that, some higher priority work came up and then some other stuff even more important stuff came up and then some stuff even more important than that came up.
Now, those other things are now mostly cleared out of the way and, while I still haven't fixed that dcam bug, now I can get back to blogging about 1394. Not only that, but I have had to get a better understanding of some areas of the Solaris 1394 support that I didn't understand as well as I should have in January, so the technical content of my blogs should be better.
So, in a couple of days, look for a write-up on how to use DCAM1394_CMD_REG_READ and DCAM1394_CMD_REG_WRITE to get more from your industrial camera than you can with DCAM1394_CMD_PARAM_GET and DCAM1394_CMD_PARAM_SET.
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