On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Martin Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I think it is best to start at the lowest level we can, and we may >> > run into some roadblocks along the way. Especially the probe messages >> > that are not well understood yet. > > Did you ever work out how to identify a given BlackBerry device? having > good identification for devices is key if you want to move functionality > up into userspace. > > If you can create a black berry information dobry that's used by dbi > and/or hal to populate stuff ready for userland. _that_ would be useful. > > So long as hardware identification, power management (you know) and low > level interfaces are kernel bound. The user space can excel then at > cooking up some cool stuff.
Since 2.6 linux has started to rely heavily on hal and a quick glance at it on an F8 (2.6.21) box shows that hal notices a blackberry as both a storage device and a usb device. And once hal has noticed a device it's very easy to get whatever information there is out. I haven't been paying a lot of attention to what information barry wants, but I'll go back and look so we can verify that hal sees what we want it to see. -edge ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
