This may be help in developping free dos usb drivers.. http://libusb.wiki.sourceforge.net/
libusb About This site is the home for the libusb project. It's aim is to create a library for use by user level applications to access USB devices regardless of OS. libusb is an open source project licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Status Johannes Erdfelt founded the project and lead development through 2007. During this time, libusb-0.1 was developed, stabilised, and adopted by a wide range of projects. Development slowed from that point. Daniel Drake adopted the project in January 2008, with the aim of developing libusb-1.0. This new branch adds features missing from the first release. Stable release Latest version: v0.1.12 Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Tom, Marco, > >> > That I have in mind is mass storage, mainly flash memory stick... >> > Boot from cd-rom is OK as emergency tool but is a static >> > system where you can't save your preferences or documents, >> > will be better to have a portable USB system able boot on real >> > or virtual machines as Damn Small Linux does. > >> if you can boot from an USB stick, this stick is already >> accessible from DOS. You need USB drivers only for other disks. > > This is true but OLDER computers only have USB mouse/keyboard > support, not USB storage support in BIOS. Those could still be > booted from CD/DVD, and USB storage could be used to store the > files of the user. This is similar to what Knoppix did a few > years ago when Linux NTFS drivers could not write files and/or > users did not want to write files to their Windows disk after > booting Linux from CD/DVD... > > Basically all current USB DOS drivers are "freely downloadable > from the vendor homepage" but have too unclear license to let > us include them with any distro. Admittedly, other distros do > care a lot less about this but yet others think that you may > only use those USB drivers when using USB devices or controllers > of the same brand for which the vendor made the driver. > > > > On the way towards a free DOS USB storage driver, having a > free open source ASPIDISK replacement would be a nice step. > See my explanation in my previous email... :-). > > Talking about free components, I also have some open source > code snippets for PCMCIA - you could combine them with other > existing free non-DMA IDE access code and some PnP init stuff > to make a "PCMCIAASPI" driver similar to USBASPI, for compact > flash and similar disks. Problem is that the PCMCIA snippet > is in Pascal while open source IDE code typically is in ASM. > > Thirdly, it would be nice if Bart Lagerweij of nu2.nu could > make his Eltorito cdrom driver open source, maybe somebody > could send him a pizza for motivation :-). The Eltorito sys > driver is mainly glue code between BIOS "special INT13 CD/DVD > access after booting from CD/DVD" interfaces and the generic > DOS cd/dvd interface expected by SHSUCDX, MSCDEX and the like. > > Eric :-). > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/USB-driver-tp17207117p17621457.html Sent from the FreeDOS - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
