[BRLTTY] bc640

[Mario Lang]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

>>I have a Optilec BC640 sitting on my desk for
>>potential driver development.  I find the HID interface
>>pretty interesting to play with, so I requested specs from Optilec.
>>They told me Dave is already working on a driver for BRLTTY.
>>Is this true?  Any early preview patches to play with and maybe
>>help out?
>
> I have the specs but haven't yet put any time into it due to lack of access to 
> a device as well as the fact that converting brltty to be unicode-based is a 
> rather large job.

A great job, btw, thanks :-)

> I also don't yet understand HID interfaces.

I at least am as far that I could decode the keypresses pretty
easily, but I have no idea how to write to the device yet.  Thats why
I got interested in specs.  At least USB HID seems pretty simple on linux,
havent looked at how it works on the bluetooth side yet.
I am using linux-specific userspace interfaces though (<linux/hiddev.h>).

> How long do you have it for?

Until 13th of February.

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