From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 19:05:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF26C1065696 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:05:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hselasky@freebsd.org) Received: from swip.net (mailfe05.swip.net [212.247.154.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBD38FC14 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:05:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=5OBHFxb9I47YZ7HELXzI6cL6pwPTRnd5uxbD1DPQ4WY= c=1 sm=1 a=xqJwjQdkl30A:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=CL8lFSKtTFcA:10 a=i9M/sDlu2rpZ9XS819oYzg==:17 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=lLbuatFO8dx-yGNSML4A:9 a=SYu7Ul5RzQkrEhRkF_AA:7 a=cAKPOJx-Zdou3vlb2jc_HMefea8A:4 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=i9M/sDlu2rpZ9XS819oYzg==:117 Received: from [188.126.198.129] (account mc467741@c2i.net HELO laptop002.hselasky.homeunix.org) by mailfe05.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.19) with ESMTPA id 34415243; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:05:57 +0200 Received-SPF: softfail receiver=mailfe05.swip.net; client-ip=188.126.198.129; envelope-from=hselasky@freebsd.org From: Hans Petter Selasky To: Adam Vande More Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:07:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-STABLE; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: X-Face: +~\`s("[*|O,="7?X@L.elg*F"OA\I/3%^p8g?ab%RN'( =?iso-8859-1?q?=3B=5FIjlA=3A=0A=09hGE=2E=2EEw?=, =?iso-8859-1?q?XAQ*o=23=5C/M=7ESC=3DS1-f9=7BEzRfT=27=7CHhll5Q=5Dha5Bt-s=7Co?= =?iso-8859-1?q?TlKMusi=3A1e=5BwJl=7Dkd=7DGR=0A=09Z0adGx-x=5F0zGbZj=27e?=(Y[(UNle~)8CQWXW@:DX+9)_YlB[tIccCPN$7/L' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010132107.15259.hselasky@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Hope for USB support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:05:58 -0000 On Wednesday 13 October 2010 18:10:38 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Brandon Gooch > wrote: I'm very reliant on VirtualBox, I > suspect many on this list are (or eventually will be), so I'm interested > in having this support. > > Hans, would this be better handled by the FreeBSD Foundation, or would > a pool of interested users be an appropriate vessel for the funds > (assuming it is financially viable -- how much are we talking? ;) ). > > > Yeah a good bounty system would be nice to have. I would contribute to the > cause in this case. Unfortunately, I don't think the old bounty system > where the user promises to pay once something gets there works very well. > It would be nice for the FreeBSD Foundation to take collections in escrow > and offer goals stats for specific projects, but I don't think they do > that for whatever reason. If something like that were to become possible, > making it known via the FreeBSD VirtualBox wiki would be nice. > Also a side note, USB 2.0 support would be a requirement for a project I > would contribute too. USB 1.0/1.1 is not really needed IMO. Hi, The virtualbox only has: ./src/VBox/Devices/USB/DevOHCI.cpp All devices will get emulated like FULL-speed devices. I think this is OK for most cases. If you want to add EHCI support, then we are talking more time to complete. --HPS