On Mar 22, 2017, at 3:34 AM, Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:19:10AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:26:52AM -0700, Greg Hazel wrote:
Hi,
I’m working with Greybus and I’m wondering if there’s any support or code for virtual USB devices.
Yes, the USB virtual controller driver is in the kernel, but you need to have it enabled in your firmware as well, as it passes USB commands from the kernel down to the firmware and then USB device directly.
The driver that's merged is far from complete I'm afraid. There was some development happening out of tree, but the effort was discontinued and the work in progress never merged back.
Which side is not likely to work well? I can control the virtual device side, but not the host side.
Note, there are some limits on the size of a USB transaction at the moment, we never got the chance to fix them up, but small transactions (like a keyboard), should work fine. Once you start to get up to 4kb in a transaction, you might have firmware issues.
That would even be 2k, and you'd still need the out-of-tree driver…
1500 bytes is the typical ethernet MTU, so even with overhead is 2k is reasonable?
On one side of Greybus I have a small nuttX environment with a UART connected device which I can write modules for, and on the other side of Greybus I’d like to provide a network interface. I can’t modify that side, so I have to work with the kernel modules it has available. I thought it might be possible to present a virtual USB CDC-EVM to Greybus, and my guess (hope) is that cdc_ether would pick it up on the other side.
Ah, if this isn't really a network device, or modem, I wouldn't mess with cdc-evm. If it is a modem, then it should "just work" with the uart code today, just tell userspace this is a modem and all should be fine.
Indeed, that would be the way to go.
This suggestion isn’t clear to me. The UART device is not a standard network device or modem; it needs some of my software to behave like one. I’d like to present it in a way that Greybus can provide to the host machine. cdc-evm was my first guess at that interface; but what do you think would be better?
-Greg