From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 11 07:01:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA29473 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 07:01:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from nemesis.sim.ucm.es (nemesis.sim.ucm.es [147.96.1.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA29466 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 07:01:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from inaky@jovian.ucm.es) Received: from ib-144.arrakis.es (ib-144.arrakis.es) by nemesis.sim.ucm.es (PMDF V5.0-6 #5335) id <01IS98QN6ATQ00004G@nemesis.sim.ucm.es> for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 16:04:05 +0200 Received: (from inaky@localhost) by jovian (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA06526; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:00:19 +0100 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:00:19 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?I=F1aky_P=E9rez_Gonz=E1lez?= Subject: Development of a UNIX-wide USB standard API To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <199801100000.BAA06526@jovian> MIME-version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under Emacs 19.34.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I'm the developer of the Linux USB Driver Stack. I wanted to let you know there's some interest at the USB Implementors Forum in the creation of a UNIX-wide USB API standard, and we'd like all flavours of Unix to attend. For the case you don't know what USB is (if you do, please skip this paragraph): USB is the Universal Serial Bus, developed by a consortim of vendors (all the "fatcats"). If features plug'n'play, hot pluggin, tree structure, synchronous and asynchronous operation with guaranteed bandwidth and two speeds, with a maximum of 127 devices per physical bus. You can find more detailed info at http://www.usb.org. Initially I was developing a Linux-only driver, however I started to try to make it portable to other free OSes. Anyhow, one day the suggestion of a UNIX USB compatible API raised and we are trying to get something done. Initially we are just calling people to join and give ideas (actually interested parties have something done). As a start, there's interest for this from Solaris, Digital Unix and from me, for the Linux side (please mind that the commercial vendors still don't have an `official' position on this as it is still on it's very first discussions). If you are somehow interested, please drop me a mail. Thanks for your time P.S.: Please, could you forward this mail to the OpenBSD people and any other interested parties from BSD? -- Linux-USB! http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/USB.html - - Inaky Perez Gonzalez -- PGP pubkey fingerprint - inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es -- 8E 34 3A 62 64 99 E2 44 - http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky -- AD 7B 30 D9 DD FF 3E 4C - --------------------------------- -- ----------------------- - The loneliness of the long distance runner .....