From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 17 00:43:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA01236 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01231 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id JAA12754; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:43:32 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:43:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Doug White cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetBSD now has USB .. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ... Is FreeBSD next? > > Someone want to take on a porting project? (and don't say me, I don't > have time or the technical expertice.) Little update on that one: Support for USB is being developed for Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD. There is a separate effort, done by several companies, and lead by DEC to create a Universal Interface to it, a so-called USBDI. Lennart Augustsson is doing the work for NetBSD and I was supposed to the implementation for FreeBSD. I have a stack that does something, but couldn't yet be bothered to have a look at the USBDI. Lennart is much further in that he is able to run a number of different devices off it, with control, interrupt, bulk AND isochroneous transfers. He is at the moment rewriting his code, because he did not like the looks of it. Linux is a separate effort due to licensing (GNU) and done by Inaky Perez Gonzalez. At the moment, my implementation has stopped completely due to lack of time. It is however intended to either port Lennart's source or build my own stack (of which the lower parts, UHCI/HC virtual hub, have already been implemented) within the next few weeks. I'm supposed to be the point of contact for the FreBSD implementation, so if you want do anything or want more information, just let me know. Links to information on USB: http://www.usb.org http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/usb.pl Ciao, Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message