What is the status of wines USB support ?
I have an IDE for a developement board and I really would like to flash it from Linux, ( I don't have windows), and this uses USB to talk to the board. Is there anything done yet or am I on my own ?
Can someone also giva a hint on the feasibiliyt, complexity of managing a USB implementation for wine ? I am rather good at linux device drivers and such.
/ regards, Lars Segerlund.
"Lars" == Lars Segerlund lars.segerlund@comsys.se writes:
Lars> What is the status of wines USB support ?
Lars> I have an IDE for a developement board and I really would like to Lars> flash it from Linux, ( I don't have windows), and this uses USB to Lars> talk to the board. Is there anything done yet or am I on my own ?
Lars> Can someone also giva a hint on the feasibiliyt, complexity of Lars> managing a USB implementation for wine ? I am rather good at linux Lars> device drivers and such.
Not much has been done, in my understanding. The first step needed, in my opinion, is to put much work into the SETUPAPI DLL to let USB Devices at least enumerate. Talking the the devices then is another big step. Not many windows programs will talk to the devices by using something like libusb. So either something like ndiswrapper for USB would be needed in the kernel to load windows drivers, with infrastructure in wine to to talk to the driver, or the windows driver need to be be reengineered to exposed a API to the user program like with windows driver, but internally use Linux means (libusb, etc).
Perhaps at WineConf a BOF should be held to gather bits and pieces and ideas.
Bye
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