USB Mass Storage with rump (was: Full-time developer available)

[Olaf Buddenhagen]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:57:20PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> El 16/09/15 a les 05:47, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro ha escrit:

> >I'm interested in USB support.  I'd like to aim mass storage devices at
> >first.
> 
> For USB using Rump, I think most of the pieces exist already. Rump implements
> the ugenhc NetBSD API, which is already supported by libusb, so if you want
> to support all libusb-aware applications, I think you'd just need something
> like:
> 
> (cups|sane|whatever) ---> libusb ----> /dev/rumpusb (in Hurd VFS) ----> your 
> translator ----> librump ----> /dev/ugenhc

This looks nice for generic USB. I doubt we have a mass storage driver
using libusb though? Rather, I guess it's something rump implements
internally, and would be exposed through a different entry point?

-antrik-