USB host connector? (was Re: Battery powered charging/USB hub)

[Hans van der Merwe]

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 21:14 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Mark Eichin writes:
> >Speaking of USB -- the openmoko has a USB device port on the side
> >(that's being discussed in this thread) and internally has a USB host,
> >according to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:Neo1973_Hardware#USB_Host
> >but I what I haven't seen clarified - is the USB host port brought
> >outside at all?
> 
> Hardware yes, software no at present (I'm told).
> 
> The USB connector is actually a Mini-AB, so either a host or a device
> can be plugged in.  At present the software only enables the phone as
> a device (I'm not quite sure how the handshake would work to just
> notice that a device was plugged into it; it's not a full USB
> On-The-Go stack).
> 
> >(At a high level, my use case is "take pictures from my real camera
> >and upload them directly to flickr" :-)  That requires either an SD
> >slot, or USB host to talk to the card directly (or USB to talk to the
> >camera, but that's less portable.) I'm trying to see if I can do this
> >with the FIC1973, possibly with simple warrantee violating hardware
> >enhancements...)
> 
> It's my understanding that it would "only" require software changes.
> 

Does anyone know how much work it will be to get the USB host working? I
will need it to drive a webcam for one of my projects.

Will this be possible?





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