Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:19:14 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aky_P=E9rez_Gonz=E1lez?= <inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Development of a UNIX-wide USB standard API Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980111101658.579B-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199801100000.BAA06526@jovian>
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Thankyou for dropping in... BTW I've redirected this to 'hackers@freebsd.org as that's where development occurs (and in 'current') On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, [ISO-8859-1] Iñaky Pérez González wrote: > > Hi > > I'm the developer of the Linux USB Driver Stack. I wanted to > let you know there's some interest at the USB Implementors Forum in > the creation of a UNIX-wide USB API standard, and we'd like all > flavours of Unix to attend. > > For the case you don't know what USB is (if you do, please > skip this paragraph): USB is the Universal Serial Bus, developed by a > consortim of vendors (all the "fatcats"). If features plug'n'play, hot > pluggin, tree structure, synchronous and asynchronous operation with > guaranteed bandwidth and two speeds, with a maximum of 127 devices per > physical bus. You can find more detailed info at http://www.usb.org. > > Initially I was developing a Linux-only driver, however I > started to try to make it portable to other free OSes. Anyhow, one day > the suggestion of a UNIX USB compatible API raised and we are trying > to get something done. Initially we are just calling people to join > and give ideas (actually interested parties have something done). As a > start, there's interest for this from Solaris, Digital Unix and from > me, for the Linux side (please mind that the commercial vendors still > don't have an `official' position on this as it is still on it's very > first discussions). > > If you are somehow interested, please drop me a mail. > > Thanks for your time > > P.S.: Please, could you forward this mail to the OpenBSD people and any > other interested parties from BSD? > > -- > > Linux-USB! http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB.html - > - > Inaky Perez Gonzalez -- PGP pubkey fingerprint - > inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es -- 8E 34 3A 62 64 99 E2 44 - > http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky -- AD 7B 30 D9 DD FF 3E 4C - > --------------------------------- -- ----------------------- - > The loneliness of the long distance runner ..... >
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