[OLPC-devel] Re: belt and suspenders...

[Jim Gettys]

Certainly a general purpose one is a lot of work.

As you point out, that isn't necessary.

Feel free to build one ;-).
                     - Jim


On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:18 -0700, John R. wrote:
> On 7/11/06, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Yeah, that was my guess.  And building a USB stack is *lots* of work.
> >
> 
> Is it a lot of work? I guess a general purpose USB stack is, but what
> about just accessing USB storage?
> 
> http://www.strotmann.de/twiki/bin/view/Microusb/ProjUSBCartUsbDos
> 
> I don't know much about USB, but if they can do this on an 8-bit
> Apple, Atari or C-64 in Forth with a few pages of code (plus the Forth
> interpreter, probably 8K), I can't imagine it would be all that
> difficult to rewrite in C.
> 
> The choice of USB controller might affect things too.
> 
> The main site:
> http://microusb.org/
> 
> -- John.
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child