Re: [coldsync-hackers] Sony T415 and FreeBSD..

[Josef Karthauser <joe at tao dot org.uk>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:13:12PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> Linux's kernel module is called 'visor'.  It was written to provide a
> tty interface to a USB HandSpring visor to allow pilot-link to work
> properly with these devices.  At the time it was created, there were no
> active pilot-link developers, so this was necessary.
> 
> Since then, it has grown to support all USB Palm OS devices.  Yes, most
> of it's functionality can be done purely from userspace (as patches to
> coldsync for libusb have proven).  However the number of people who run
> PPP over the connection to talk directly to their device has been
> growning, and the kernel module is required for that.
> 
> Also, the userspace implementation can't take advantage of some of the
> speed tweaks that is done in the kernel driver.  This makes the kernel
> driver much faster than any userspace implementation could be.
> 
> Hope that helps clear things up.

Does userland coldsync do the "ritual handshake" yet via ugen?

Joe

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