[fprint] AES2810 development

[Vasily Khoruzhick]

On Friday 12 December 2008 13:11:38 Nikolay Vladimirov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> About a week ago I bought thinkpad r500 and it has AES2810. I looked
> around and as
> I understand it's not being worked on and it's not going to be. Since
> I have the hardware and
> I'm an embeded linux developer ( i know my way in low-level and kernel
> stuff :) ) I think I can try to get it working.
> I have few a questions:
>
> 1. Can I do this without windows since it's a major pain to reinstall it?
You can use virtualbox or vmware with windows installed in it to capture some 
usb logs.

> 2. Where can I find some general guidelines for the process of writing
> a fingerprint reader driver? I need some starting point.
I'm not sure that there's some guidelines... Check out driver for aes2501 ;)
Btw, libfprint uses userspace drivers, it accesses usb-bus using Daniel's 
libusb-1.0

Regards
Vasily
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