[ros-dev] what's the ReactOS USB status?

[Aleksey Bragin]

    Hi Damjan,
USB currently is in pogress, and we are doing only basics of USB now 
(low-level stuff like usb devices enumerations, URB transfer, etc, etc). 
Certainly it would be great if you could get anything to help in USB 
development, since you already can develop parts of USB stack on Windows XP 
(our current stack aims to be compatible with Windows XP's stack, please 
note that Win2k's is different, and actually a little outdated).

Regarding file systems drivers - I'm not expert here, I wish someone else 
answers this :), but I'd like to tell it's rather hard to deal with FS.
And re. whole ReactOS - you are a bit wrong, there are a few things which 
work - check wiki.reactos.com, I think there is a link to fansite which has 
DB of apps working under reactos.


WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damjan Jovanovic" <dj015 at yahoo.com>
To: <ros-dev at reactos.com>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 8:20 PM
Subject: [ros-dev] what's the ReactOS USB status?


> Hi
>
> I recently got the chance to try out ReactOS for my
> first time. It seems to me just about nothing works,
> it takes an expert to compile it (I had to download 2
> different mingw-linux versions, fix an assembly
> language syntax error and comment out broken netkittcp
> code), but it's a very cute operating systems that
> boots faster than any other I've ever seen.
>
> Anyway, I recently started looking at how to make
> Windows device drivers (it's interesting...), and I
> thought I'd make a couple for ReactOS. I had several
> in mind:
>
> -A USB mass storage device driver (when I plugged my
> USB flash disk in, it didn't flash and no new disk
> showed up, so I assume they currently aren't
> supported) I believe that the driver is called
> USBSTOR.SYS on Win2k?
>
> -A USBSCAN.SYS for USB scanners [I am already working
> on an STI (Still Image service) implementation, and
> seeing as the Wine folks aren't thrilled at having me
> add device drivers into Wine, which is necessary for
> many scanners, I think I'll make STI for ReactOS
> instead :-) ].
>
> -A driver for the XFS filesystem. I've already got a
> hacked-up collection of XFS code from GRUB to compile.
> Now just to turn it into a proper driver...
>
> But before I even get started, how well is USB
> supported under ReactOS? Why is there no USBLIB.H in
> the DDK headers? Does anyone know good resources for
> USB programming under Windows? And any advice for
> filesystem drivers?
>
> Thank you
> Damjan
>
>
>
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