Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:26:46 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, usb-bsd@makelist.com Subject: Re: update on USB stack/call for help Message-ID: <199811121026.LAA09449@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.981112101741.16468K-100000@elect8> from "Nick Hibma" at Nov 12, 98 11:29:42 am
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> The porting of the NetBSD USB stack to FreeBSD is progressing. We are at > the point were actual device drivers are to be tested/implemented. The > (working) beginnings of the following are there: ... > Anyone wanting to get his hands dirty could have a look at the following > parts: one thing that would really need work is SCANNER support. Currently in FreeBSD we have support for the following: + SCSI through the generic interface; + some handheld scanners through specific device drivers (gsc,asc) but the vast majority of flatbed scanners out there are parallel-port and now slowly moving to USB. For the former, there is no standard that i am aware of, and manufacturers are collaborative as usual... I just hope that USB will also bring together a standardized way to access devices so we don't have to get crazy with proprietary command sequences (I am not so optimistic, the only area where I have seen this happening is SCSI & ATAPI storage devices...) cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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