Re: USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-06-01 Thread Jens Arnold
Am 29.05.2012 22:11, schrieb Frank Gevaerts: Apparently the Openmoko people distribute USB ids to selected projects and communities that ask for them. ... * If we can't get one id per target (which I think is not unlikely, we're talking 50+ ids *right now*, so we'd have to ask for a bloc

Re: USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-05-29 Thread Björn Stenberg
Frank Gevaerts wrote: > Thoughts? I agree with your plan. Ask for one ID per target, make use of whatever we get. As for buying our own ID space, I'm not sure I think that is the best use of donations. -- Björn

Re: USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Martitz
Am 29.05.2012 22:11, schrieb Frank Gevaerts: * Do we want one id per target (I think ideally we do)? Or even one id per "main" protocol (so we'd use e.g. a different id for MSC than for MTP (whenever we get MTP support)) (this would mosy probably be asking too much from the openmoko folk

Re: USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Louden
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Michael Sparmann wrote: > +1, and I think 256 IDs are not all that much. They probably have a > block of 65536 addresses, and acquiring such a block only costs a > one-time fee of $2000. So we'd basically be asking them for about $10 > worth of IDs. $2000 doesn't

Re: USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-05-29 Thread Michael Sparmann
> * Do we want one id per target (I think ideally we do)? Or even one id > per "main" protocol (so we'd use e.g. a different id for MSC than for > MTP (whenever we get MTP support)) (this would mosy probably be asking > too much from the openmoko folks) +1, and I think 256 IDs are not all th

Re: USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-05-29 Thread Amaury Pouly
2012/5/29 Frank Gevaerts > Hi, > > Apparently the Openmoko people distribute USB ids to selected projects > and communities that ask for them. > (see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Product_IDs#Conditions > and > http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2012/05/21/#20120521-open_registry_for_usb_and_

USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-05-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
Hi, Apparently the Openmoko people distribute USB ids to selected projects and communities that ask for them. (see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_Product_IDs#Conditions and http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2012/05/21/#20120521-open_registry_for_usb_and_mac_addrs) I think we should seriously