Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:19:22 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com> Cc: lcdproc@lists.omnipotent.net, current@freebsd.org, "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@att.net> Subject: Re: [Lcdproc] LCDProc CVS + PicoLCD on FreeBSD Message-ID: <23243.1232140762@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:32:30 EST." <C6F61B9C-A765-4F35-9BF7-E744B2F19C99@siliconlandmark.com>
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In message <C6F61B9C-A765-4F35-9BF7-E744B2F19C99@siliconlandmark.com>, Andre Gu ibert de Bruet writes: >On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:09 AM, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >>> Unfortunately the PicoLCD 2X20 and 4X20 devices present >>> themselves as HID devices. >> >> ...but... they *are* HID devices. Why is this "unfortunate"? It's unfortunate, because they are HID devices only because that is what microchip.com supplies as a USB programming example. The actual protocol they talk has nothing to do with the HID specification. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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