Re: [coldsync-hackers] FreeBSD 4.4 and USB palm m505 issues.

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:27:15AM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
> I'm still trying to work out why PalmOS 4.0 + USB + Linux works at all.
> What is coldsync doing differently with linux compared with freebsd?

On Linux, the USB communication is handled by a kernel driver, visor.c.
coldsync thinks it is talking to a serial port, which is what the kernel
driver provides to userspace.

On FreeBSD, coldsync is directly talking to the USB interface.

thanks,

greg k-h
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