WinUSB related resources

WinUSB related resources:

Microsoft resource:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/connect/usb/winusb_howto.mspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa476426.aspx

Jan Axelson's website
http://www.lvr.com/winusb.htm

libusb-1.0 Windows backend
http://www.libusb.org/wiki/windows_backend

libusbdotnet supports WinUSB, libusb-1.0 and libusb-win32 0.1
http://libusbdotnet.sourceforge.net/

WinUSB component
http://asyncop.com/MTnPDirEnum.aspx?treeviewPath=[o]+Open-Source\WinUSB+Component

WinUSBDotNet
http://code.google.com/p/winusbnet/

pywinusb: python wrapper
http://code.google.com/p/pywinusb/

Microchip Forum thread:
http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=264046

picusb Google code page updated

http://code.google.com/p/picusb/

I have created this page quite some time ago. But I did not put anything inside. Now I will start to put some contents inside, mainly related to some open source codes related to USB PIC MCUs.

Some files for download:
http://code.google.com/p/picusb/downloads/list

libusb 1.0 Windows backend reaches pre-release mode

http://old.nabble.com/Announcing-code-freeze---pre-release-mode-for-the-Windows-backend-td27657981.html

Pete Batard announced the news and Pete Stuge has come out a good integration plan. Hopefully the Windows backend will sooon be integrated into the main tree.

At the same time, I think if you are interested in the Windows backend, you can already try it. It mostly works for me. The only issue I have right now is the HID backend where feature reports do not seem to work.

FreeBSD 8.0 First Impression

Now I used FreeBSD 8.0-Release (updated to 8.0-RELEASE-p2) and it seems to be much better than last time, especially in the USB front. I also like the freebsd-update capability. It seems to be faster than last time.

What I like compare to Linux: maybe the BSD license itself. But now I feel GPL/LGPL are not bad either.

What is not working: my SATA DVD-RW is not recognized at all. This is an Acer M1641 desktop with NVidia 620i/Geforce 7050 based chipset and FreeBSD seems to have big problems with NForce 620i and 630i.

What I do not like: the port system. I have since removed most of the packages initially installed (LXDE, KDE3, KDE 4, QT33, QT4, etc) due to the mass upgrade of libjpeg. It caused big problems to many packages. So now I have a bare-minimum Gnome 2.26 based desktop (dare not update to 2.28). Mass upgrade takes a long time and often the ports are broken. ARCH seems to do a much better job since binary updates are provided. I still like Ubuntu's package system (deb/apt, Synaptic) the best.

My libusb testing on FreeBSD: pk2cmd seems to behave like last time, but now I do not need to recompile the kernel. libusb based programs work better but there are still problems.
http://old.nabble.com/LibUSB-on-FreeBSD--current-%288.x%29-td21642051.html

My OpenOCD test on FreeBSD: FT2232D seems to work, J-Link V3 does not work. J-Link V7 seems to work. All of them works under Linux.
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/openocd-development/2010-February/014864.html

My main interests with FreeBSD will be more libusb/MCU related -- to get OpenOCD (J-Link and FTDI, for ARM MCU development) and PICkit 2 (and other PIC related things, for PIC development) to work well under FreeBSD. Now it seems that FreeBSD is an possible platform for MCU development.