Dave, It's not a reply, actually; rather a quickie note.
I was also wondering about USB hosting from phone itself. My case is to use Wimax modem, directly from phone. i will tell that, http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/index.html may give you a quick note to usb-hosting-what-and-what-not. -- neobd On Feb 28, 12:20 am, "Dave Henning" <d...@evlax.com> wrote: > I'm looking for some help understanding the current USB Host capabilities of > the latest Android smartphones versus an embedded processor running a > standard Linux build. I've done quite a bit of driver-level Linux > development, but I'm totally new to Android. > > My current target system has a portable x86 ComExpress board with quite a > few custom USB slave devices that already have firmware and Linux drivers > written. I would like to replace the x86 computer with a commercial Android > smartphone. Originally, I had planned on using an existing docking station > (which already runs Linux) as the central USB host for all devices including > the smartphone. The phone would be a slave device and communicate with the > devices through messages sent through the dock. > > Now, I'm wondering if the phone itself could serve as the USB host without > needing the docking station. If I go the phone-only route, I would want a > fairly proven solution that would support multiple USB devices as well as > standard Linux USB drivers like usbserial. (I know FTDI already has an > Android version of the USB driver.) I don't mind building my own kernel > and integrating drivers, but I don't want to be in completely uncharted > territory as far as kernel hacking goes. This is something that would need > to work fairly quickly. > > What would be the limitations of the USB host capability of the latest > greatest Android phone versus a docking station running a standard Linux USB > stack? > > Much thanks in advance, > > Dave . -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
