From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 11 23:56:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA12850 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (d182-89.uoregon.edu [128.223.182.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA12779 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA25708; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:55:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19980111235549.20580@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:55:49 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Mike Smith Cc: Julian Elischer , =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=F1aky_P=E9rez_Gonz=E1lez?= , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug White Subject: Re: Development of a UNIX-wide USB standard API References: <199801120232.NAA00901@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199801120232.NAA00901@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 01:02:17PM +1030 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike Smith scribbled this message on Jan 12: > > BTW I've redirected this to 'hackers@freebsd.org > > as that's where development occurs (and in 'current') > > Thanks Julian; we've been looking for something like this for a while > now. 8) > > > On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, [ISO-8859-1] Iñaky Pérez González wrote: > > > > 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. > > At the moment, I don't believe there's anyone in the FreeBSD camp > active on USB. Having said that, I'm sure that there are more than a > few people that would be *very* interested in seeing USB happen in a > standardised fashion. Whether any of us would be able to attend USB > forum meetings is perhaps a different matter. 8( actually, Doug White was thinking about doing some work on USB, but I'm not sure if he's actually started anything or not... > > > 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). > > Naturally. Is there a mailing list or other forum where one might > listen and perhaps contribute to the process? -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD