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

["nntp.dragonflybsd.org" <robgar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are going to end up doing a lot of damage to the real code as is, I've 
been
busy with other things for a while, but just looking at the FreeBSD code has 
reminded
me of just how far we have come. It also reminds me of just how much further 
we need to go

Robgar

"Alex Hornung" <ahornung@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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 <polachok@gmail.com>:
> > 2009/12/12, elekktretterr@exemail.com.au <elekktretterr@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.