Updating USB stack from FBSD 8.x and others

2009-12-12 Thread elekktretterr 
Hi all,

1) I think we desperately need to bring our USB stack into reality. Is
anyone working on bringing in the new FreeBSD USB code or maybe one from
other BSDs? How difficult would it be? Lets dicuss.

2) BTX: i have been recently bitten by this thing again and I would really
like to see GRUB + multiboot in, BTX and loader out.

I would be willing to contribute up to $500 USD for each, maybe others
will put in some $$$ too.

Cheers,
Petr

Re: Updating USB stack from FBSD 8.x and others

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Neumann 
2009/12/12 elekktrett...@exemail.com.au

 Hi all,

 1) I think we desperately need to bring our USB stack into reality. Is
 anyone working on bringing in the new FreeBSD USB code or maybe one from
 other BSDs? How difficult would it be? Lets dicuss.


Some time ago I said that I'd like to bring the HPS USB stack (now in
FreeBSD 8.0) to DragonFly.
But no time and too little knowledge about device drivers. I'd also like to
spend a few hundred dollars
for the person who ports FreeBSD's USB stack.

Regards,

  Michael

Re: Updating USB stack from FBSD 8.x and others

2009-12-12 Thread Alexander Polakov 
2009/12/12, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au elekktrett...@exemail.com.au:
 Hi all,

 1) I think we desperately need to bring our USB stack into reality. Is
 anyone working on bringing in the new FreeBSD USB code or maybe one from
 other BSDs? How difficult would it be? Lets dicuss.

I am going to port FreeBSD 8 stack.

Re: Updating USB stack from FBSD 8.x and others

2009-12-12 Thread Alex Hornung 
I've suggested this a long time ago, and I've also provided some
people with guidance on how to do it, as I've been in contact with the
HPS, the author of usb4bsd.

The main point here is that his i4b repo contains usb4bsd and a
userland wrapper for it. Hence usb4bsd can be elegantly ported to
dragonfly by modifying as little as possible from the real code and
just wrapping it around as his userland wrapper shows. Any attempt to
port this should be aiming for this solution so to avoid a huge mess
and keep the code maintainable.

Cheers,
Alex Hornung



2009/12/12 Alexander Polakov polac...@gmail.com:
 2009/12/12, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au elekktrett...@exemail.com.au:
 Hi all,

 1) I think we desperately need to bring our USB stack into reality. Is
 anyone working on bringing in the new FreeBSD USB code or maybe one from
 other BSDs? How difficult would it be? Lets dicuss.

 I am going to port FreeBSD 8 stack.