Linux version of libusb that works with FreeBSD

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > The thing I am not sure about is how ioctl's would get mangled on
> > the way through.
>
> They get interpreted as linux ioctl, as they are handled by the
> linuxulator. You could try to write a wrapper there...

Yeah..
Maybe an FS approach would be simpler since there is already a 
framework.

> > I guess the other approach would be to use a standard Linux libusb
> > but emulate the device tree it uses in Linux.. Would be a lot of
> > work though I think.
>
> As long as you can specify the devices in the linux app, it's enough
> to translate the ioctl's. Apart from that, there's some kind of
> translation layer for devices already, but I don't know if it just a
> Linux major/minor -> FreeBSD dev mapping, or if you can map linux dev
> -> FreeBSD dev.

Not sure I can specify the devices, but there's always ln :)

> AFAIR HPS' USB stack has linux compatibility, maybe you should ask
> him / have a look at it.

I had a look at the code but I can't see any Linux related code.

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