From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 11 10:30:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA22875 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:30:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA22862 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:30:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA00831; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:22:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd000829; Sun Jan 11 10:22:21 1998 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 10:19:14 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aky_P=E9rez_Gonz=E1lez?= cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Development of a UNIX-wide USB standard API In-Reply-To: <199801100000.BAA06526@jovian> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA22864 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Thankyou for dropping in... BTW I've redirected this to 'hackers@freebsd.org as that's where development occurs (and in 'current') On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, [ISO-8859-1] Iñaky Pérez González wrote: > > Hi > > 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. > > For the case you don't know what USB is (if you do, please > skip this paragraph): USB is the Universal Serial Bus, developed by a > consortim of vendors (all the "fatcats"). If features plug'n'play, hot > pluggin, tree structure, synchronous and asynchronous operation with > guaranteed bandwidth and two speeds, with a maximum of 127 devices per > physical bus. You can find more detailed info at http://www.usb.org. > > 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). As a > start, there's interest for this from Solaris, Digital Unix and from > me, for the Linux side (please mind that the commercial vendors still > don't have an `official' position on this as it is still on it's very > first discussions). > > If you are somehow interested, please drop me a mail. > > Thanks for your time > > P.S.: Please, could you forward this mail to the OpenBSD people and any > other interested parties from BSD? > > -- > > Linux-USB! http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB.html - > - > Inaky Perez Gonzalez -- PGP pubkey fingerprint - > inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es -- 8E 34 3A 62 64 99 E2 44 - > http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky -- AD 7B 30 D9 DD FF 3E 4C - > --------------------------------- -- ----------------------- - > The loneliness of the long distance runner ..... >