Question about usb-hid development

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 11/23/13 23:35, Chuck Burns wrote:
> On Saturday, November 23, 2013 3:48:46 PM Stefan Achatz wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm writing Linux support for gaming USB keyboards/mice and think
> about
>> porting functionality to FreeBSD.
>> While I'm installing FreeBSD and strolling through the source fighting
>> with the differences to Linux, maybe someone could give me a starting
>> point:
>> In Linux there is a hidraw chardevice from which the unparsed, polled
>> reports can be read, and that supports ioctl's to read/write feature
>> reports.
>> Is there something similar in FreeBSD?
>> Thanks and have a nice day
>> Stefan
>
>
> Two words for you. "man ugen" it's the generic USB driver.
>

Hi,

If you want a 100% cross platform driver, use libusb for your HID 
access. Else there is also /usr/ports/multimedia/webcamd, which might 
attach to your joystick and provide a similar device like under Linux.

--HPS