From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 30 15:18:55 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFC637B400; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4E343E31; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:18:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 0DBD938B; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:18:36 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:18:36 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/modules Makefile src/sys/modules/uvisor Makefile src/sys/dev/usb uvisor.c Message-ID: <20020730221836.GA12286@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <200207301744.g6UHiTsh025084@freefall.freebsd.org> <200207302158.g6ULw70L015968@whizzo.transsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207302158.g6ULw70L015968@whizzo.transsys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:58:07PM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > Josef Karthauser writes: > > > Log: > > > Commit a version of the uvisor driver for connecting Handspring > > > Visors via USB. > >=20 > > Shouldn't this rather be done in userland, through ugen? >=20 > In fact, it is available in userland code as part of code I=20 > contributed to the coldsync package (also in the FreeBSD ports > tree). Coldsync doesn't work with my M505, at least the version in the ports doesn't. The devel version in their cvs repository doesn't compile against FreeBSD (current). > The protocol used with the Handspring Visor and Visor Deluxe > was reversed engineered with a USB protocol analyzer and is=20 > essentially the same as the serial line protocol but using > a USB pipe to carry the bits. It also has some nice "undocumented" handshaking at the beginning that no-one appears to know what to do with. > Other USB-attached Palm-like devices do something different > which doesn't work with the code that I wrote. Having this > in the kernel is unlikely to make it *easier* to support, but > what the heck. The kernel driver will presumably also work with > the other legacy PalmOS sync packages that expect at TTY device. Either way, it's there now. Use it or choose not to ;). Tools not policy. Joe --=20 "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein, 1921 --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj1HELwACgkQXVIcjOaxUBbv1gCgmOvHohB3PVc7scYZE22grRu2 UNgAoMaF88ArhGJcZmA2B4NNjRnpukcW =qyup -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message