Hi, I'm in the process of migrating custom patches made to WINE 1.1.7 to WINE 1.3.24. Among those is USBD.SYS, which we use to run a Windows driver for a specific USB device which has no equivalent Linux driver. I was wondering what to expect from 1.3.24 as far as USB device discovery and Windows driver support goes. For example, our older patched version ties into Linux HAL to find devices, but there doesn't *appear* to be the same functionality in this newer stock version. Does anyone know what the goal of usbd.sys is in WINE 1.3.24?
Also what I'd like to find out is if there is maybe a cutting-edge usbd.sys module that hasn't made it into the development WINE branch.
Anyway, thanks for your time and any help is greatly appreciated, as always.
-Louis
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:15 AM, louis@museresearch.com wrote:
Hi, I'm in the process of migrating custom patches made to WINE 1.1.7 to WINE 1.3.24. Among those is USBD.SYS, which we use to run a Windows driver for a specific USB device which has no equivalent Linux driver. I was wondering what to expect from 1.3.24 as far as USB device discovery and Windows driver support goes. For example, our older patched version ties into Linux HAL to find devices, but there doesn't *appear* to be the same functionality in this newer stock version. Does anyone know what the goal of usbd.sys is in WINE 1.3.24?
Yes, Wine added support for udev (because hal is now obsolute on most Linux distributions), but AFAIK the plans were not to remove hal due to backward compatibility.
No major changes to usbd.sys were made. Wine still doesn't detect USB devices or load drivers or anything like that.
Also what I'd like to find out is if there is maybe a cutting-edge usbd.sys module that hasn't made it into the development WINE branch.
I have plans to write more usbd.sys stuff but nothing as of yet. Are you planning to release your custom patches at some stage?
Anyway, thanks for your time and any help is greatly appreciated, as always.
-Louis
Damjan
Yes, Wine added support for udev (because hal is now obsolute on most Linux distributions), but AFAIK the plans were not to remove hal due to backward compatibility. No major changes to usbd.sys were made. Wine still doesn't detect USB devices or load drivers or anything like that.
OK, I guess I'll have to find a way to adapt our old patches for that then.
Also what I'd like to find out is if there is maybe a cutting-edge usbd.sys module that hasn't made it into the development WINE branch.
I have plans to write more usbd.sys stuff but nothing as of yet. Are you planning to release your custom patches at some stage?
Our patches should already be available (Google for "Muse Research open source"; I can't recall the server it's on at the moment, but it should be in the "1.8" subdirectory). I'm not sure how general-purpose the code is (I didn't write it).
Louis
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