Re: Mainlining Linux Sunxi SoC AW USB

Hi,

Petr Vorel [off-list ref] writes:

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[1] https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-livesuite/blob/master/awusb/awusb.c

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Why is this even a driver at all, it looks like you can write a small
userspace program using libusb to do everything it does, right?  What
exactly is this driver needed for?

I'm sorry for not providing more info at the beginning. This is a driver for
host computer (i.e. developers laptop) used by LiveSuit tool [2] to flash Images
to the NAND of Allwinner devices. LiveSuit itself [3] is unfortunately provided
only in binary form. The only open source code with GPL v2 license is awusb
driver. Thus I thought I could ease my life with upstreaming at least the
kernel driver. But maybe it's not a good idea. I'm using LiveSuit for flashing
Allwinner A31, but it requires quite old distro due libqtgui4. Maybe sunxi folks
use something newer nowadays, but I haven't found anything in their wiki.

looks like you could implement that entirely in userspace with libusb ;-)

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balbi