From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 12 04:33:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA03123 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA02726 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 04:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id LAA09449; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:26:47 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199811121026.LAA09449@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: update on USB stack/call for help To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:26:46 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, usb-bsd@makelist.com In-Reply-To: from "Nick Hibma" at Nov 12, 98 11:29:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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