Re: [Qemu-devel] kFreeBSD and USB support

[Andreas Färber]

Am 05.06.2013 22:17, schrieb Michael Tokarev:
> Hello.
> 
> On debian we, for a long time, used the following hack
> in a build script of qemu:
> 
> # Hack alert.  qemu-1.3 still needs this.
> # On recent kFreebsd, old USB host API has been removed,
> # but qemu did not learn to use new USB API.
> # Just do not build USB host support.
>         sed -i 's/^HOST_USB=bsd/HOST_USB=stub/' \
>                 qemu-build/config-host.mak
> 
> This isn't really FreeBSD but "kFreeBSD", which is
> a FreeBSD kernel (and ofcorse the kernel headers)
> and some more linux-like userspace - it is Debian
> userspace running on top of FreeBSD kernel.
> 
> This effectively disables host usb support for
> kFreeBSD.  And since I guess the kernel headers
> are the same on regular FreeBSD, I think the same
> issue happens on regular FreeBSD too, that is,
> host usb does not work there as well.
> 
> What is the status of this situation now?

I believe as of FreeBSD 9 their USB stack was rewritten and thus USB
host support disabled in FreeBSD ports, too.

Andreas

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