On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Benjamin Lim <m...@limbenjamin.com> wrote: > Hi,
Hi Benjamin, > I dont mind working on the driver as long as i have someone to guide me > through the process. Join #fprint channel at irc.freenode.org > I have looked through the git repo for libfprint. However, I am not very > clear as to which parts have to be written to support a new device. > > From what I understand, i need to sniff the usb packets to determine what > data is sent during startup,idle and while reading the prints. Then i need > to write C source with functions to detect the state of the reader and read > in the data and transmit it over the internal API for processing? Usually I write simple prototype just to retrieve image from scanner, see https://github.com/anarsoul/fprint_aes1660 and https://github.com/anarsoul/fprint_aes2550 Then I move working skeleton into libfprint driver > The enrollment, storage and verification process are all being performed by > a standard library? Yep, driver just needs to provide image to the library. Regards Vasily > Thanks > Ben _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list fprint@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fprint
