Re: [Ftdi-usb-sio-devel] ftdi usb slave device

[Bill R. <br...@pa...>]

Hi there,

Kendrick Hamilton wrote:

>	Soory for my ignorance about USB. We are looking at adding USB to
>a board we are building. It runs uClinux on a coldfire processor (not the
>5272). I am wondering if the FTDI usb drivers can be used for slave
>devices or would I need to develop a new driver?
>

Hmmm. Depends what you mean by a 'slave device'. USB lets lots of 
devices hang off the usb bus so assuming your board has some kind of 
support usb compliant host adapter (and linux supports it) you'll be 
able to run lots of USB devices off the bus.

What you probably want to have a read of is something like:

Universal Serial Bus System Architecture (2nd Edition) 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201309750/qid=1039505016/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-3638596-5588626?v=glance&s=books>

but there are lots of other books and a cursory google search will give 
you lots of info.

I don't know anything about uClinux so I don't know what 'fun' you might 
have with that. Hopefully it runs a 2.4.x kernel.

Good luck!

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Bill Ryder
Weta Digital Geek