Hi all,

I've been doing a bit of hacking lately and have come with a userspace tool
that loads firmware onto your webcam, without the need for you to have
r5u870 compiled and working with your kernel. Eventually, this will all be
managed by HAL callouts and such, but for the time being its a small simple
little application.

If you want to give it a go, you'll need the uvcvideo kernel module
installed, as well as Mercurial. Then, simply:
$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/
$ cd r5u87x
$ make
$ ./loader

and you should be set! You may need to re-modprobe uvcvideo if it doesn't
work immediately.

Please, report any bugs by creating a new ticket at
http://www.bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/issues/new/. If you have any
questions, feel free to reply to this thread (remember to hit REPLY TO ALL
in your mail client other than just reply).

Cheers,
Alex Hixon