Porting DeviceKit-power to non-Linux

[Arnaud Quette]

2009/8/3 Lin Guo <Lin.Guo at sun.com>

>  Hi Arnaud,
>

Hi Lin,


> As I know, the current kernel drivers(hid & hidparser) on Solaris can not
> handle USB/HID UPS devices. However, there is a project "HID Extending" in
> progress with the goal as "support more hid devices and features in hid
> devices in solaris, including function keys in keyboard, horizontal scroll
> in some usb mice, tablet, UPS and others." I am waiting for the delivering
> of the project for UPS support.
>
> So USB/HID UPS support will not be covered by Phase One of Devicekit-power
> on Solaris.
>

thanks a lot for this update.
this will greatly help in establishing a roadmap.

cheers,
Arnaud
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Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
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> 2009/07/31 22:07, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>
> Hi Jedy,
>
> 2009/7/31 Jedy Wang <Jedy.Wang at sun.com>
>
>> Hi Arnaud,
>>
>> For Solaris, I do not know if related drivers are ready in the kernel
>> But for Devicekit-power, our current plan is just to implement all
>> features supported by HAL(Solaris version) only.
>>
>
> back around 6 years ago (the last I look at the solaris kernel, when
> working with Jan), the HID kernel driver was limited to keyboard and mouse.
>
> at that time, we worked on the ugen driver, on which the Solaris version of
> the libusb is based (on which the NUT USB drivers are also based in turn).
>
> for the reference:
>
> http://developers.sun.com/solaris/developer/support/driver/docs/usbups_whitepaper.html
>
> Maybe you can get more info within Sun?
>
> cheers,
> Arnaud
>
> --
> Linux / Unix Expert R&D - Eaton - http://www.eaton.com/mgeops
> Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
> Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org
> Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/
>
>   On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:42 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>> > I don't know if Solaris or FreeBSD uhid or any other else can do the
>> > job.
>> > Maybe Lin can tell us more about Solaris current status? I've not
>> > looked at it since the work on ugen with Jan Van Bruene.
>>
>>
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