From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EYZzC-0008Ea-Er for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:10:22 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EYZzA-0008EO-TS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:10:22 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EYZzA-0008EL-Oh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:10:20 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.11] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EYZzA-000144-IO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 21:10:20 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] USB support Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 02:10:10 +0000 References: <436CC599.3080905@bellard.org> <200511060204.29618.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200511060204.29618.mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511060210.11833.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > - Linux host USB redirector to use the USB 1.1 host devices which are > > not requested by the host OS (i.e. no host driver is loaded for them). > > It is *very* limited and buggy at the moment, but I was able (once !) to > > mount a disk-on-key flash device. > > Had you thought of adding a minimal kernel module to allow "stealing" of > host drivers for use by QEmu? When I looked into this, I had the > impression that the 2.6 USB code ought to be able to support it, although > I'm not sure how it would interact with the userspace driver layer in your > case. Someone else already pointed out there's a usbdevfs ioctl for this. Paul