Re: [linuxdc-dev]Microphone for Dreamcast / Dreameye camera

[Adrian M. <ad...@mc...>]

On Monday 28 Jan 2002 10:48 pm, M. R. Brown wrote:
> * John Wiggins <lin...@ho...> on Mon, Jan 28, 2002:
> > I take it that it would be too much trouble to look at the maple bus in
> > the same light as one would for USB...
>
> We do ... although you have to question the intelligence of adding all
> those Maple drivers in the kernel tree itself.  True that USB does, but is
> that necessarily the right thing to do?  USB does include mass storage,
> audio, networking, etc. but it's a heck of a lot more organized (and
> standardized) than Maple ever could be.  Besides, those USB drivers hook
> into other Linux subsystems.  I can't imagine what subsystem the maracas
> would hook into.
>

Well, I doubt we'll ever really have maracas drivers, but why should these be 
treated any differently (in terms of running as kernel code) than, say, a 
mouse, which is an utterly useless article when it comes to a Dreamcast?

>
> M. R.