Here you will find my experimental work about various Usb Camera Chips Support (Sunplus, Etoms, Conexant, Z-star ~ Vimicro, Sonix, Zoran, IcMedia ~ TransVision based): Spca5xx Linux Kernel module.
The goal of this project is to provide all necessary software components to fully support UVC compliant devices in Linux. This include a V4L2 kernel device driver and patches for user-space tools.
At the Ottawa Linux symposium the current state of Wlan in Linux was highlighted in detail. In the meantime, the development version of the Linux kernel included the gspca webcam drivers.
linuxpoison.blogspot.com — A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux.