On 08/07/2009 12:53 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > a camera, a phone, a usb stick, or whatever gizmos you > have at home... Real plastic and metal plugs only, or bluetooth connections as well?

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:42 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:34 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > > On 08/07/2009 12:53 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > a camera, a phone, a usb stick, or whatever gizmos you > > > have at home... > > > > Real plastic and metal plugs only, or bluetooth connections as well? > > Bluetooth is definitively in scope. The scope seems worryingly large, to me, on this one. We could talk about modems, 3G modems, mice, headsets, webcams, phones running any one of a dozen different operating systems (all of which behave and are supported - or not - entirely differently), mp3 players, Wiimotes, drum kits, steering wheels, video cards (yes, I've got a USB video card here), or a zillion other completely different things (all my examples are things I actually have lying around my apartment somewhere). There's no real unified software layer handling all these cases (well, udev and hal probably get involved in most of them, but they're nowhere near the whole stack necessary to actually do anything useful), so I'm not sure we're going to get much useful focused work done with such a broad scope. sorry to sound like Mr. Negative, just thought it was worth raising my concerns!

> > > > a camera, a phone, a usb stick, or whatever gizmos you > > > > have at home... > > > > > > Real plastic and metal plugs only, or bluetooth connections as well? > > > > Bluetooth is definitively in scope. > > The scope seems worryingly large, to me, on this one. We could talk > about modems, 3G modems, mice, headsets, webcams, phones running any one > of a dozen different operating systems (all of which behave and are > supported - or not - entirely differently), mp3 players, Wiimotes, drum > kits, steering wheels, video cards (yes, I've got a USB video card > here), or a zillion other completely different things (all my examples > are things I actually have lying around my apartment somewhere). There's > no real unified software layer handling all these cases (well, udev and > hal probably get involved in most of them, but they're nowhere near the > whole stack necessary to actually do anything useful), so I'm not sure > we're going to get much useful focused work done with such a broad > scope. > > sorry to sound like Mr. Negative, just thought it was worth raising my > concerns! Apart from the USB video cards, if you have any of those, feel free to come around.

I saw something a while ago about the DisplayLink (as opposed to DisplayPort) USB Video standard released code/drivers as GPL for linux but I've never seen anything further about it even in my random following of the X mailing lists.