Re: [Barry-devel] Barry & PlayBook

[Nicolas <pr...@fr...>]

Le jeudi 24 novembre 2011 à 20:34 -0500, Chris Frey a écrit :
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:07:31AM +0100, Nicolas wrote:
> > You can find my barry commit about PlayBook :
> > 
> > http://repo.or.cz/w/barry/progweb.git/commit/130cd47bf9f2ac7ce7fd91dbba6b9cccf5d39b0e
> 
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> Thanks for posting the code!
> 
> Unfortunately, this doesn't compile against libusb 1.0, so that needs to be
> fixed first.
> 
> The new ProbeResult m_class should be listed in its constructor too.
> 
> Also, I'm not sure the reset portion belongs in Probe.  Does the Playbook
> have a Database endpoint?
> 
> If there is no Database endpoint, maybe it makes more sense to make
> the ProbePlayBook class completely standalone, and not derived from
> Probe.  And call it ResetPlayBook or something similar.
> 
> It sounds like the SCSI PlayBook mode will hardly ever be used by Barry?
> Do we know what other modes exist?

It's a basic SCSI device only one mode.
The SCSI device provides only windows driver, and BlackBerry Desktop
Manager.
For Barry, it's unusefull.

After the USB net switch, you have a standard USB network device.

PlayBook doesn't offer "customize" interface as we can see with our
mobiles.

So, write a a new ProbePlayBook class standalone does sense.

RIM has chosen use only SAMBA connection with the playbook. And you
don't need computer to use this pad.

> > For the moment, I haven't succeed to run my tool from udev ; except if I
> > do : RUN+=/usr/sbin/bplaybook without filter...
> 
> Is the ProductID really 0020?  I don't have one, so I can't check this.

Yes 0x0020 for SCSI mode.
Then, 0x0011 for USBNET mode.

I'll had lsusb output for both modes in the barry doc sections.

> Also, you might need to restart udev when editing these things.  Hopefully
> udev is smart enough not to need a restart, but worth a try, since I've
> had issues in the past.
> 
> - Chris

Nicolas