Provide USB support in wine ?

[Sylvain Petreolle]

"Accidentally", when updating my RH system, I discovered that libusb is
a library that provides user access to the USB devices, regardless of
the OS. It appears we could use it in wine, since :

- its license compatible (LGPL)
- it supports some OSes on which wine is built. Like :
Linux
FreeBSD
NetBSD, OpenBSD (dont know if this works now, referring to
http://www.winehq.com/?page=faq#Under_what_hardware_platforms_and_Wine)

Darwin (never heard of it for Wine ??)
MacOS X (recent Qemu work makes this possible)

Could such a support be possible/doable ?

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[BiGgUn]

Is there some function in the win32 api that helps managing USB devices ?

Stephan

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"BiGgUn"  wrote:
> Is there some function in the win32 api that helps managing USB devices ?

Probably it's the universal DeviceIoControl. But it assumes that you know
a driver interface and a device driver accepts the commands.

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Sylvain" == Sylvain Petreolle  writes:

Sylvain> "Accidentally", when updating my RH system, I discovered that
    Sylvain> libusb is a library that provides user access to the USB
    Sylvain> devices, regardless of the OS. It appears we could use it in
    Sylvain> wine, since :

Aren't most OS side USB driver Ring 0 programs? Then wine has no chance to
run the  windows drivers.

Bye

[Mike Hearn]

> Darwin (never heard of it for Wine ??)
> MacOS X (recent Qemu work makes this possible)

MacOS X support is not currently possible, Qemu makes it work (mostly)
on Linux/PPC, MacOS X is vastly different to linux at every level. The
different linkage model in particular would probably cause issues.