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- Short: Poseidon USB Stack Update 1.31
- Uploader: hodges@in.tum.de (Chris Hodges)
- Author: hodges@in.tum.de (Chris Hodges)
- Type: comm/usb
- Version: 1.31 (05-Oct-02)
- Requires: a compatible USB card
-
- Introduction
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The Poseidon USB Stack is a software solution that unleashes the
- possibilities of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and the devices with USB
- interface, ranging from mice, keyboards, tablets, joysticks, printers,
- scanners, webcams, digicams, flash card readers, zip drives, floppy disk
- drives, harddisks, memory sticks, ethernet adapters, scanners and audio
- adapters to less common things like power supplies, GPS location devices or
- finger print readers. It is intended to be a solution for all systems.
-
- Big news
- ~~~~~~~~
- V1.31
- - New GUI's for printer.class, bootmouse.class.
- - Extended GUI of massstorage.class.
- - Stack config GUI elements added in Trident.
- - Massstorage: Now can mount RDB partitions! Added booting from RDB
- media!
- - Bootkeyboard: Added experimental wheel mouse support.
- - Registrations can now be obtained electronically from IOSpirit
- (www.iospirit.com) also via credit card payment.
-
- V1.30:
- - Trident updated and extended! Now allows to open configuration windows.
- - Config window for bootkeyboard and massstorage.
- - LOTS of bugfixes.
-
- V1.28:
- - User licence scheme added.
- - Pencam VHI driver.
- - Various fixes.
-
- V1.27:
- - Printer class fix.
-
- V1.26:
- - Mass storage fixed and extended.
- - New USB Modem class.
- - UPAR printer mountlist included.
-
- V1.25:
- - German manual and installer script
- - Fixed the bugs in the installer script that would copy the UMSD file to
- the wrong drawer (and without icon)
- - New usb->serial converter class
- - Mass storage now automounts
-
- Changelog
- ~~~~~~~~~
- poseidon.library 1.31
- o Added stack config support.
-
- Trident 0.12
- o Added stack config stuff.
- o Misc changes.
-
- hub.class 1.17
- o Fixed a bug where the hub task wouldn't neccessarily fail out from the
- outer loop on hub removal.
-
- bootmouse.class 1.11
- o Added experimental quick & hacky wheelmouse support. Will probably only
- work with a few mice (the ones that report wheel movement in byte 4
- even with boot protocol enabled -- works with my Sigma mouse, doesn't
- work with my Logitech wireless desktop (no wheelmouse data in boot
- protocol). Be sure you have MUIWheelPatch installed.
- o Added class (defaults) and binding GUI to enable wheelmouse support.
-
- massstorage.class 1.15
- o Booting from RDB implemented (added a flag for this in the GUI aswell).
- Thanks to Ralph Schmidt for contributing the CreateSegment() code.
- o Misc internal changes.
- o RDB Mounting added. Now RDB formatted partitions will be mounted
- automagically on media insertion aswell.
- o Mounting is not done from the device task anymore (as this could cause
- a deadlock, if the filesystem wanted to do device IO before returning
- from the mount call), but from a tiny seperate task, living only for
- the moment :)
- o Changed implementation of FIX_INQUIRY to fake inquiry. Old fix inquiry
- is still present for wrong inquiry requests. Fake Inquiry should fix
- a lot of broken devices.
- o Added option to disable the initial bulk reset, as some broken devices
- seem to choke on it (and crash their firmware, stupid thing).
- o Changed NakTimeout prefs value from ms to 1/10secs. This seems more
- reasonable. Please check your configs.
- o Added option to delay the device startup. This is needed for some
- broken devices, which crash their firmware, if they receive commands
- during their setup (Nikon Coolpix).
- o Added possibility to change the DOSType. If the DOSType is NOT
- 0x464154xx (FATx), LowCyl will not be 0 and autodetection of FAT95
- will be disabled. This should allow the use of CrossDOS, but this has
- not been tested.
- o Added saving of default prefs.
- o Added default prefs GUI (class config).
-
- printer.class 1.14
- o Added implementation of CMD_START/CMD_STOP.
- o Added class GUI with two options: one disables the sending of the init
- sequence on Epson printers, the other one disables the SOFT_RESET
- command which causes problems on some broken printers.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- poseidon.library 1.30
- o psdFreeVec() was broken (freed 4 bytes less than allocated). I am
- really sorry about this. Pfuschwork orange.
- o Added class config reading and writing.
- o Added interface/device config reading and writing.
- o Added some more support functions to the library.
- o Internal variables/flags added for USB2.0 support (although, there is
- no working USB2.0 support right now).
- o Added NAK timeout (5 secs) on EP0 while enumerating, as there seem to
- be badly broken devices out there, doing NAKs forever, blocking out the
- stack until the device is removed again.
- o There were some global fields in the library data section which caused
- LoadModule by THOR to remove the resident tag because the checksum was
- wrong. Hopefully, this is now fixed.
- o Licence check was broken. I forgot an if-clause, which caused the
- single user keyfile being killed after the verification (i.e. click on
- online/offline/online and you were back to demo version). Sorry to
- Mediator users.
-
- Trident 0.11
- o Added calls to open class config windows.
- o Fixed some gadgets in device window not being ghosted.
- o Added 'Settings' gadget in device window.
- o Added speed output of USB 2.0 highspeed devices (no support in the
- stack, yet).
- o Added calls to open binding config windows.
- o Added some gadgets in device info window.
- o Increased stack to 16KB as it was nearly running out of stack.
-
- all classes
- o Lots of internal changes to be more extensible (via a DoMethod vector).
- o Changed classes to use the new FindEndpoint and FindInterface support
- functions. Saves a few bytes, makes classes more robust.
- o Bailing out code introduced with release V1.27 was broken and would
- always have crashed the machine on failing allocation. Fixed.
-
- massstorage.class 1.13
- o Bugfix: With a device with multiple LUNs, Permit() was called more
- often than Forbid(). Could have caused all kinds of havoc. Fixed.
- o Data overflow is now being ignored in the data phase. This fixes
- some broken devices.
- o Added device config GUI. I hope you enjoy it. If there's something
- missing, please let me know. Remember that automounting of RDB
- partitions still doesn't work, even if there's a switch already.
- o On response timeout errors and multiple LUNs, access to unit could
- be locked, hanging the other LUN tasks. Stupid bug, which is now
- fixed.
- o CB/CBI recovery handling didn't work in some cases.
- o Added CBI_RESET (maybe this helps?).
-
- bootkeyboard.class 1.9
- o Added class config GUI. The configuration settings include turning
- on/off of ResetHandlers, setting the time until the machine reboots
- (in case of resethandlers installed) and an alternate caps lock mode.
- o Added ISA keymap option, aswell as an option to disable the extra
- key translation functions (like page up/down).
- o Extra key translation did not send events for up-qualifiers, therefore
- shift (or amiga or control) were still pressed after using keys like
- page up/down. Fixed.
-
- highway.device
- subway.device
- o Fixed a possibly wrong PPC gate function.
-
-
- Contact address
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Any mail, comments or donations welcome:
-
- Chris Hodges Account: 359 68 63
- Kennedystr. 8 BLZ : 700 530 70
- D-82178 Puchheim Bank : Sparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck
- Germany
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