From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 21:01:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482B916A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:01:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2395043D46 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:01:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB637A44E; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 13:01:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <418FDEB9.9020708@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:01:45 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tech-kern@netBSD.org, usb@freeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: USB net/free-BSD cooperation. X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 21:01:46 -0000 Hi. As you all probably know, the 3 BSDs (well, 4 if you include Dfly as distinct from FreeBSD-4) have been sharing USB code originaly developped for NetBSD. One of the difficulties is that there hasn't been a good feedback path. Ther was a BSD usb mailign lost but it wasn't easy to remember and has since degenerated into pure spam. In FreeBSD we have (Finally) decided to start a "usb@" list. and we've had some people starting to co-ordinate their USB plans. Of course this affects the other BSDs so we are still looking for a way in which we can effectively communicate stuff back and forth with Net/Open BSD USB developers. One simple option.. just all yoin the new list (@freeBSD.org isn't too hard to remember) Other suggestions are welcome.. (some people have even suggested a common code pool but hey we tried that once, in 96 I think..) We have for example one chap who has rewritten quite a bit of the initialisation code. It would be a shame for this to widen the gaps we have if its also useful for other systems. There are also other fixes and changes that may be generally useful. In any case.. I'm not ON this list (tech-kern).. I'm just hoping this is the place to find the USB developers (If it isn't, please forward to them).. I've cc'd the new list as well, so if there is any discussion. it can probably go there.. regards.. Julian