Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:22:20 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Openmoko phones and USB on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080913122220.GA3162@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <200809131310.33495.hselasky@c2i.net>
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El día Saturday, September 13, 2008 a las 01:10:32PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky escribió: > Hi, > > There are some problems using the dfu-util to flash Openmoko phones from > FreeBSD. The problem resides in the USB stack on the phone, which does not > support the libusb-0.1 string requests. I'm planning to work around this in > the kernel to avoid future problems. I have tested patches for this, but they > have not committed yet. Hi Hans, I'm using FreeBSD on my normal laptop and my eeePC 900 gadget; my Openmoko will arrive next week (hopefully) and so I'm interested and willing to test your stuff (hoping that it is based on RELENG_7); > Secondly I plan to add support for RNDIS so that you can access the OpenMoko > phone through USB ethernet. I'm currently awaiting approval from the Linux > people to port their RNDIS driver to the new USB stack under a BSD license. > Really they should have used CDC ethernet, but there are too many Windows > users out there I guess :-) Concerning accessing the Openmoko through USB I thought that this is possible, at least the Openmoko's Wiki says this: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Networking#FreeBSD or are you talking about running FreeBSD on the Openmoko at all (this would be great news :-)) Thx matthias PD: I'm only subscribed to -arm, not to -usb; -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ A computer is like an air conditioner, it stops working when you open Windows Una computadora es como aire acondicionado, deja de funcionar si abres Windowshome | help
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