[sane-devel] Requirements for backend
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:19 -0500, Miguel wrote: Hello, I've just finished a releasable backend for a kodak i1320, it works fine and fast... if you don't mind it only scans at 200dpi, duplex, and 8bit gray. Which are the needed steps for releasing the code to SANE? The scanner has a pair of weird things like 2 bulk-out (usb) endpoints, so it's done using libusb directly; also the threading (it does stuff using procesess, so why it's called thread?) model of sanei_thread is rachitical, so using pthreads. Some one of you said someday that the firmware may be copyrighted, and that is incompatible with SANE, so how do the firmware is distributed? Thanks -- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber Miguel Ruiz Velasco Open Key Server PGP key 0x5931109 For devices which have 2 bulk-out endpoints support by sanei_usb is not provided as you noted. See this page for a patch for sanei_usb_read_bulk_ep. (sanei_usb.c and sanei_usb.h files), use only the sanei_usb_read_bulk_ep parts. In a few weeks i expect to add these parts to SANE cvs. -- m.vr.gr. Gerard Klaver
[sane-devel] Requirements for backend
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 19:03 +0200, Gerard Klaver wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:19 -0500, Miguel wrote: Hello, I've just finished a releasable backend for a kodak i1320, it works fine and fast... if you don't mind it only scans at 200dpi, duplex, and 8bit gray. Which are the needed steps for releasing the code to SANE? The scanner has a pair of weird things like 2 bulk-out (usb) endpoints, so it's done using libusb directly; also the threading (it does stuff using procesess, so why it's called thread?) model of sanei_thread is rachitical, so using pthreads. Some one of you said someday that the firmware may be copyrighted, and that is incompatible with SANE, so how do the firmware is distributed? Thanks -- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber Miguel Ruiz Velasco Open Key Server PGP key 0x5931109 For devices which have 2 bulk-out endpoints support by sanei_usb is not provided as you noted. See this page for a patch for sanei_usb_read_bulk_ep. (sanei_usb.c and sanei_usb.h files), use only the sanei_usb_read_bulk_ep parts. In a few weeks i expect to add these parts to SANE cvs. -- m.vr.gr. Gerard Klaver Now with link http://gkall.hobby.nl/downloads.html -- m.vr.gr. Gerard Klaver
[sane-devel] Requirements for backend
Hello, I've just finished a releasable backend for a kodak i1320, it works fine and fast... if you don't mind it only scans at 200dpi, duplex, and 8bit gray. Which are the needed steps for releasing the code to SANE? The scanner has a pair of weird things like 2 bulk-out (usb) endpoints, so it's done using libusb directly; also the threading (it does stuff using procesess, so why it's called thread?) model of sanei_thread is rachitical, so using pthreads. Some one of you said someday that the firmware may be copyrighted, and that is incompatible with SANE, so how do the firmware is distributed? Thanks -- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber Miguel Ruiz Velasco Open Key Server PGP key 0x5931109
