From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26590 invoked by alias); 1 May 2008 15:57:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 26581 invoked by uid 22791); 1 May 2008 15:57:12 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hermes.mlbassoc.com (HELO mail.chez-thomas.org) (204.133.123.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 May 2008 15:56:54 +0000 Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id C538033790FA; Thu, 1 May 2008 09:56:49 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B50E33790B8; Thu, 1 May 2008 09:56:47 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <4819E83E.3050701@mlbassoc.com> Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 15:57:00 -0000 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Lunn CC: eCos Devel Subject: Re: "usbhid-ups" programing problem... References: <20080429181922.GG2044@freenet.de> <20080501100353.GK9097@lunn.ch> <4819DEFF.2040007@mindspring.com> <20080501155138.GA14773@lunn.ch> In-Reply-To: <20080501155138.GA14773@lunn.ch> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-devel-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Frank Pagliughi wrote: >> Andrew Lunn wrote: >>> eCos is rather lacking in USB examples. Nobody contributes back there >>> USB class drivers. >>> >>> >> I'm actually going to be using eCos again pretty soon, and have been >> digging through some of my old stuff, including a nearly finished driver >> for the Philips/NXP ISP1181 chip, which I promised to submit two years >> ago. > > It is probably worth looking at the assignments stuff. You will need > an FSF assignment before we can accept these contributions. > >> Maybe I can start with a few simple examples, like usb serial or a >> usb printer. Where would they go? > > A CDC serial driver would be good. I would put it in > > packages/io/usb/serial/slave/ > >> For that matter, the usb subsystem could use a bit of an upgrade to make >> drivers easier to write. > > Others have said that as well. But it needs somebody to actually do > it. A lot depends on the complexity of the driver. I recently wrote a > simple driver and a Linux kernel counterpart without too much effort. Perhaps you could share it as an example? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------