blubee blubeeme wrote at 08:42 +0800 on Aug 22, 2018: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:26 AM John Hein <jh-f...@snkmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone have thought about what it would take to support access to > individual usb devices "natively" from a bhyve vm? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > I had this idea maybe a year or two years ago, there was also another guy > [he worked > on the fbuffer for bhyve] who wanted to get it done but they were waiting on > the > main guy behind the USB stack on freebsd:Â hselasky > > He was too busy to actually do any work so the project stalled. > > My use case for having direct access to usb devices in a bhyve vm could > allow rapid > development of USB drivers for FreeBSD by sniffing the packets being sent > over USB > to the bhyve guest and reverse engineer drivers so that we can write native > drivers > for common devices that aren't supported on FreeBSD yet. > > I had to put that on the back burner for a bit since there's a lot more > pressing > FreeBSD issues that I am working on. > > What's your use case?
My use case is more specific (and thus perhaps less of a lofty goal?). I want to access a usb-based fpga jtag programmer from a linux vm (specifically using a xilinx tool like "impact"). _______________________________________________ freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
