Ivo,

Did you ever get an MTP responder working on beagleboard?

Claude

On Monday, October 27, 2014 at 12:31:40 AM UTC, ivo welch wrote:
>
>
> ok, further research.  I discovered that I probably want to write a usb 
> mtp (media transfer protocol) driver for the BBB.  if anyone has already 
> written one, please let me know.
>
> On Saturday, October 25, 2014 8:48:38 PM UTC-7, ivo welch wrote:
>>
>>
>> dear BBB experts:  I would like to create a high-level filesystem device 
>> on my BBB that my (possibly malicious) linux PC can communicate with over 
>> USB in EHCI (USB 2.0 high-speed).  I will want to switch off everything 
>> else, incl ethernet-over-usb, again because I will guess that my PC is 
>> infected.
>>
>> from the PC perspective, I want the BBB to operate at roughly at the 
>> level of a fuse filesystem, albeit with its own processor that can enforce 
>> separation.
>>
>> most importantly, I would like the BBB to hook into the "open file" 
>> request call.  for example, I want my BBB to log every file open request to 
>> its own /tmp/log/file-logged, return an error if I don't like the filename, 
>> mangle the filename (e.g., shorten it of auto-expand it), or disallow 
>> opening a file for write when a pin is bridged or when the file resides in 
>> the /ro/ part of the file system or the filename contains the string "ro".
>>
>> on the PC, I want to do
>>
>>    PC$ mount -t speak2mybbb /dev/usb1 /mnt/usb1  ## say my BBB sits on 
>> /dev/usb1
>>    PC$ echo "hi" > /mnt/usb1/rw/file2    ## create a file
>>    PC$ ls /mnt/usb1/rw/     ## note: my BBB has mangled the filename
>>    file2-mangled-file-name
>>    PC$ cat /mnt/usb1/rw/file2-remangleme  ## note:  my BBB can remangle 
>> and figure this out
>>    hi
>>    PC$ echo "hi" > /mnt/usb1/ro/file2  ## note: my BBB knows that /ro/ 
>> is read-only and does not allow writing here.
>>    ERROR: no such file or directory
>>    PC$ umount /dev/usb1
>>
>> at first, I thought I should hook into the USB mass storage driver, 
>> because it already does EHCI and reading the USB spec, there is a lot of 
>> stuff that can go wrong.  but the problem, I believe, is that this layer 
>> operates at too low a level.  I deduct this because it supports many 
>> different higher-level file systems, like FAT or ext4.  presumably, the 
>> USB-mass storage level is primarily "sector-read" and "sector-write," which 
>> would make it very difficult to hook into a file-open.
>>
>> the USB serial driver works and would allow me to filter requests, and I 
>> could write a fuse driver on the PC (not the BBB), but USB serial is slow.
>>
>> has anyone created an EHCI fuse-like file-system communication example? 
>>  any pointers by experts would be highly appreciated.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> /iaw
>>
>>

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