Commit f5864419 authored by Stéphane Doyon's avatar Stéphane Doyon Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] added Tieman Voyager USB Braille driver

 added Tieman Voyager USB Braille driver
parent 0ba1006e
......@@ -637,6 +637,11 @@ S: Northampton
S: NN1 3QT
S: United Kingdom
N: Stephane Dalton
E: sdalton@videotron.ca
D: Tieman Voyager USB Braille display driver.
S: Qubec, Canada
N: Uwe Dannowski
E: Uwe.Dannowski@ira.uka.de
W: http://i30www.ira.uka.de/~dannowsk/
......@@ -743,6 +748,11 @@ E: cort@fsmlabs.com
W: http://www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html
D: PowerPC
N: Stphane Doyon
E: s.doyon@videotron.ca
D: Tieman Voyager USB Braille display driver.
S: Qubec, Canada
N: Oleg Drokin
E: green@ccssu.crimea.ua
W: http://www.ccssu.crimea.ua/~green
......
Kernel Driver for the Tieman Voyager Braille Display (USB)
Authors:
Stéphane Dalton <sdalton@videotron.ca>
Stéphane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca>
Version 0.8, April 17, 2002
The brlvger driver supports a Braille display (aka Braille terminal)
model Voyager from Tieman.
The driver has been in heavy use for about six months now (as of April
17th 2002) by a very few users (about 3-4), who say it has worked very
well for them.
We have tested it with a Voyager 44, but it should also support
the Voyager 70.
This driver implements a character device which allows userspace programs
access to the braille displays raw functions. You still need a userspace
program to perform the screen-review functions and control the
display. Get BRLTTY from http://mielke.cc/brltty/ (version 2.99.8 or
later). It has a Voyager driver which interfaces with this kernel driver.
The interface is through a character device, major 180, minor 128, called
"brlvger" under devfs.
Many thanks to the Tieman people: Corand van Strien, Ivar Illing, Daphne
Vogelaar and Ingrid Vogel. They provided us with a Braille display (as
well as programming information) so that we could write this driver. They
replaced the display when it broke and they answered our technical
questions. It is very motivating when companies take an interest in such
projects and are so supportive.
Thanks to Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl> who got this whole
project started and beta-tested all our early buggy attempts.
......@@ -1514,6 +1514,13 @@ P: Julien Blache
M: jb@technologeek.org
S: Maintained
TIEMAN VOYAGER USB BRAILLE DISPLAY DRIVER
P: Stephane Dalton
M: sdalton@videotron.ca
P: Stphane Doyon
M: s.doyon@videotron.ca
S: Maintained
TLAN NETWORK DRIVER
P: Torben Mathiasen
M: torben.mathiasen@compaq.com
......
......@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ if [ "$CONFIG_USB" = "y" -o "$CONFIG_USB" = "m" ]; then
dep_tristate ' Texas Instruments Graph Link USB (aka SilverLink) cable support' CONFIG_USB_TIGL $CONFIG_USB
dep_tristate ' USB Auerswald ISDN support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_USB_AUERSWALD $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
dep_tristate ' USB Diamond Rio500 support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_USB_RIO500 $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
dep_tristate ' Tieman Voyager USB Braille display support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_USB_BRLVGER $CONFIG_USB $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
fi
endmenu
......@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ subdir-$(CONFIG_USB_SCANNER) += image
subdir-$(CONFIG_USB_SERIAL) += serial
subdir-$(CONFIG_USB_AUERSWALD) += misc
subdir-$(CONFIG_USB_BRLVGER) += misc
subdir-$(CONFIG_USB_EMI26) += misc
subdir-$(CONFIG_USB_RIO500) += misc
subdir-$(CONFIG_USB_TIGL) += misc
......
......@@ -7,6 +7,16 @@ CONFIG_USB_AUERSWALD
The module will be called auerswald.o. If you want to compile it as
a module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.
CONFIG_USB_BRLVOYAGER
Say Y here if you want to use the Voyager USB Braille display from
Tieman. See <file:Documentation/usb/brlvger.txt> for more
information.
This code is also available as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want).
The module will be called brlvger.o. If you want to compile it as
a module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.
CONFIG_USB_EMI26
This driver loads firmware to Emagic EMI 2|6 low latency USB
Audio interface.
......
......@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
O_TARGET := misc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_USB_AUERSWALD) += auerswald.o
obj-$(CONFIG_USB_BRLVGER) += brlvger.o
obj-$(CONFIG_USB_EMI26) += emi26.o
obj-$(CONFIG_USB_RIO500) += rio500.o
obj-$(CONFIG_USB_TIGL) += tiglusb.o
......
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/*
* Tieman Voyager braille display USB driver.
*
* Copyright 2001-2002 Stephane Dalton <sdalton@videotron.ca>
* and Stphane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca>
* Maintained by Stphane Doyon <s.doyon@videotron.ca>.
*/
/*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_BRLVGER_H
#define _LINUX_BRLVGER_H
/* Ioctl request codes */
#define BRLVGER_GET_INFO 0
#define BRLVGER_DISPLAY_ON 2
#define BRLVGER_DISPLAY_OFF 3
#define BRLVGER_BUZZ 4
/* Number of supported devices, and range of covered minors */
#define MAX_NR_BRLVGER_DEVS 2
/* Base minor for the char devices */
#define BRLVGER_MINOR 128
/* Size of some fields */
#define BRLVGER_HWVER_SIZE 2
#define BRLVGER_FWVER_SIZE 200 /* arbitrary, a long string */
#define BRLVGER_SERIAL_BIN_SIZE 8
#define BRLVGER_SERIAL_SIZE ((2*BRLVGER_SERIAL_BIN_SIZE)+1)
struct brlvger_info {
__u8 driver_version[12];
__u8 driver_banner[200];
__u32 display_length;
/* All other char[] fields are strings except this one.
Hardware version: first byte is major, second byte is minor. */
__u8 hwver[BRLVGER_HWVER_SIZE];
__u8 fwver[BRLVGER_FWVER_SIZE];
__u8 serialnum[BRLVGER_SERIAL_SIZE];
};
#endif
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