On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:56:12PM +0100, Federico G. Schwindt wrote: > > We were the first to get Blackberries charging natively on non-Windows > > machines. The "bcharge.cc" program was released December 2006. > > The uberry(4) driver in our tree is dated 2006-11-27 :-)
Those are close debuts. :-) Before bcharge, devices in the open source world would tend to get stuck at 100mA, instead of the 500mA that Windows machines were capable of. Taking a peek at the CVS history for uberry, it seems the commands to boost it to 500mA were added around August 2007, and this change was based on bcharge. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/usb/uberry.c?rev=1.11&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > you're not giving us a dmesg or any useful information, but i guess your > blackberry is detected as uberry? if so, libusb only works on ugen devices, > and the device needs to exist in /dev. Sorry, I didn't think to send dmesg. It did indeed detect the device as uberry. I'm not familiar with ugen, so I will read up on it. Thank you! I assume I'll have to disable uberry somehow, in order to use ugen? > > Barry takes the approach that, given a working libusb, all Blackberry > > functionality can happen in userspace, from charging to backups to > > modem support. But modem support on the newer Blackberries is fairly > > charging is already provided by the uberry driver. Absolutely. I just meant to explain what Barry's goals were. It is a combination of research + library + user applications. I know folks have differing opinions on what belongs in kernel space vs. user space, and I'm not familiar enough with OpenBSD to know where that balance lies. - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
