Mouse and keyboard on L4Android

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Mon Oct 17, 2011 at 12:41:37 +0200, giowck wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:44:33AM +0200, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> >
> > On Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 15:34:06 +0200, Giorgio Wicklein wrote:
> > > Is USB working on L4Linux/L4Android?
> >
> > Yes, on x86.
> 
> So, what is needed to make it work also on arm?
> Is this done just through the io file, declared for x86 (legacy),
> so that Linux handles usb? I mean, there is no need for drivers on
> L4 side? Since Linux has them...?

Access to the usb-device is one thing but there might be dependencies to
other devices/infrastructure which are required to get it working. You
have to investigate that for your platform.

> I'm asking this, because I didn't find any specific pkg in L4 for USB.
> 
> 
> So now, by declaring the usb interface in the io file, L4Linux obtains
> physical
> access to it (or better, is allowed to access those addresses).
> Please correct me if I am wrong.

Yes.

> By "platform specific part", do you mean to enable the omap USB driver in
> Linux
> kernel configs? And maybe include libusb + usbutils (for lsusb)?

Yes, enabling the driver must of course be done. Adding user tools is up
to you :)



Adam
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