Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:41:32 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: phidgets for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20090605224132.GB24364@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <20090605233731.W38006@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20090603190455.811E01065687@hub.freebsd.org> <20090605233731.W38006@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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--69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:25:09AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0300 Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> wrote: > > Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets > > (http://www.phidgets.com? > >=20 > > Someone seems to have attempted (and succeeded) to run things on 7.0, > > some time ago, but there doesn't seem to be any further info > > (http://www.phidgets.com/phorum/viewtopic.php?f=3D2&t=3D507). > >=20 > > Any ideas? >=20 > No, but colour me interested too. Thanks for the pointer. >=20 > Copying this to Brooks, who started that thread in 2005 with a patch for= =20 > phidgets 2.0, which left me wondering if anything has become of that in= =20 > the 2.1 linux sources, which I'm just grabbing. I've not really found time to do much since then. I think I've still got an ancient port around somewhere. All my patch did was refactor the error handling which caused basic stuff to work for me. > I'm generally interested in whether linux applications using libusb are= =20 > more likely than not to work on FreeBSD, operational differences between= =20 > libusb on FreeBSD and linux, and whether our new USB stack has changed=20 > anything in that equation at all? As a rule, libusb stuff will work. Historically the function to allow a kernel driver (usually hid) to be detached hasn't been supported, but otherwise it's functional. -- Brooks --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKKZ8bXY6L6fI4GtQRAvBxAJsGw/5lmPXoqV6CAdCEo1g7Z27YDACffBoz OtdXTmJK3yT3wYabwmIXRrM= =G7H0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD--
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