Re: Zaurus support for usbnet.c

Nicolas Pitre (nico@cam.org)
Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:40:19 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, David Brownell wrote:

> Zaurus doesn't have a stock www.handhelds.org kernel; there's a
> different usb slave/target device driver, which uses different
> framing for the Ethernet packets. Pavel's patch teaches "usbnet"
> about one of those protocols. (The other is MSFT-friendly.)
>
> It's worth mentioning the Yopy here too: Zaurus isn't the only
> SA-1110 based Linux PDA, and its distro is evidently closer to
> the iPAQ distros (but you won't need a WinCE-ectomy). Current
> versions of "usbnet" have support for a recent YOPY version; they
> use different USB vendor and product IDs "out of the box".

Why not using the same (the best which ever it is) driver instead of
reinventing the wheel for every SA1110-based devides out there?

Nicolas

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