From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 22:41:22 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346F01065679 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998718FC08 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:41:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n55MfXHc042396; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:41:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n55MfWHP042395; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:41:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:41:32 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Ian Smith Message-ID: <20090605224132.GB24364@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20090603190455.811E01065687@hub.freebsd.org> <20090605233731.W38006@sola.nimnet.asn.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090605233731.W38006@sola.nimnet.asn.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:41:33 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Ghirai , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: phidgets for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:41:22 -0000 --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 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--