Hi Damjan, USB currently is in pogress, and we are doing only basics of USB now (low-level stuff like usb devices enumerations, URB transfer, etc, etc). Certainly it would be great if you could get anything to help in USB development, since you already can develop parts of USB stack on Windows XP (our current stack aims to be compatible with Windows XP's stack, please note that Win2k's is different, and actually a little outdated).
Regarding file systems drivers - I'm not expert here, I wish someone else answers this :), but I'd like to tell it's rather hard to deal with FS. And re. whole ReactOS - you are a bit wrong, there are a few things which work - check wiki.reactos.com, I think there is a link to fansite which has DB of apps working under reactos.
WBR, Aleksey Bragin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damjan Jovanovic" dj015@yahoo.com To: ros-dev@reactos.com Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 8:20 PM Subject: [ros-dev] what's the ReactOS USB status?
Hi
I recently got the chance to try out ReactOS for my first time. It seems to me just about nothing works, it takes an expert to compile it (I had to download 2 different mingw-linux versions, fix an assembly language syntax error and comment out broken netkittcp code), but it's a very cute operating systems that boots faster than any other I've ever seen.
Anyway, I recently started looking at how to make Windows device drivers (it's interesting...), and I thought I'd make a couple for ReactOS. I had several in mind:
-A USB mass storage device driver (when I plugged my USB flash disk in, it didn't flash and no new disk showed up, so I assume they currently aren't supported) I believe that the driver is called USBSTOR.SYS on Win2k?
-A USBSCAN.SYS for USB scanners [I am already working on an STI (Still Image service) implementation, and seeing as the Wine folks aren't thrilled at having me add device drivers into Wine, which is necessary for many scanners, I think I'll make STI for ReactOS instead :-) ].
-A driver for the XFS filesystem. I've already got a hacked-up collection of XFS code from GRUB to compile. Now just to turn it into a proper driver...
But before I even get started, how well is USB supported under ReactOS? Why is there no USBLIB.H in the DDK headers? Does anyone know good resources for USB programming under Windows? And any advice for filesystem drivers?
Thank you Damjan
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