From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 12 11:22:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA15485 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:22:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA15472 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA21688; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:18:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:18:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John-Mark Gurney cc: Mike Smith , Julian Elischer , =?iso-8859-1?Q?I=F1aky_P=E9rez_Gonz=E1lez?= , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Development of a UNIX-wide USB standard API In-Reply-To: <19980111235549.20580@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > 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... Not yet and probably not for a long time. Other projects are higher up on the todo list, one of those being graduating :-) If anyone else has time and/or knowledge, please go for it. I still have to buy a USB header for my asus board and some usb device to test with :-) I like the idea though. When you say `attend', do you mean virtually or physically? > > > > 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? Echo. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major