Where to start with making a device driver

[David Hollis]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 15:59 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I have just purchased a Royal ezVue5 PDA (I don't exactly think it
> deserves the genre of PDA, but oh well) just for the sole purpose of
> writing a driver for it to connect to it LInux side via USB. Of
> course, it comes with a CD for Windows drivers. But.. not exactly a
> Windows person. I know some C++, and I am learning more (CS major). I
> prefer python, but would exactly say that I am better in it. I learned
> to code in Pascal/Delphi.
> 
> So what I want to ask of this is where do I start? What do I read up
> on? What do I need, etc. I have been bored lately (waiting to get
> accepted to G-SOC) and this is the only interesting coding project
> that I could think of.

Your best bet would be on the linux-usb-devel list.  Being a USB PDA, it
probably could be made to work with little fuss or muss with the usbnet
driver, or maybe one of the gadget drivers.

-- 
David Hollis <dhollis at davehollis.com>
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