New USB driver & API, now on NetBSD 3.0

[Julian Elischer]

Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I just want to let you know that my new USB driver is now compiling and 
>working on NetBSD 3.0.
>
>The first goal of my driver is to get the USB drivers out of Giant/spl. 
>Another goal is that NetBSD and FreeBSD should share some device drivers line 
>by line, without any #ifdefs nor macros. That would help bring down the 
>amount of maintainance, not having to port patches forth and back. And to 
>avoid separate branches for drivers.
>
>Theoretically, any USB device driver that creates a device in /dev/, like 
>ulpt, can now easily be ported from FreeBSD to NetBSD.
>  
>


if NetBSD has accepted Hans's rewritten drivers, then that takes away 
one of the few remaining obstacles
for having them in FreeBSD, which is the fact that we were trying ot 
maintain compatibiolity with
NetBSD.

>
>Currently ported to NetBSD + my new USB API:
>============================================
>
>- New ugen USB device driver
>(http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/sources/src/sys/dev/usb2/_ugen.c)
>
>- ISDN4BSD USB device drivers
>(http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/sources/src/sys/i4b/layer1/ihfc2/*usb*)
>
>
>Sources:
>========
>http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/sources/src/sys/dev/usb2/
>
>There has been a major cleanup in "usb_port.h".
>
>The new USB driver supports _all_ transfer types on EHCI, OHCI, and UHCI.
>
>NOTE: the code compiles and loads on Sparc64, but it does not work properly 
>yet. This is being worked on. Maybe someone wants to help?
>
>Host processors currently supported i386, amd64 and alike.
>
>
>FreeBSD kernel emulator for NetBSD
>==================================
>http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/isdn4bsd/sources/module/
>
>
>How to download NetBSD version (You need subversion installed):
>===============================================================
>
>Follow the instructions in the README.TXT for how to install on NetBSD and 
>FreeBSD.
>
>svn --username anonsvn --password anonsvn checkout svn://svn.turbocat.net/i4b
>
>
>Some documentation has been put here:
>=====================================
>
>http://www.turbocat.net/~hselasky/usb4bsd
>
>--HPS
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