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Re: Getting Familiar with Programming in WindRiver

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Originally Posted by kyungjin View Post
All this is very helpful information.

So, is this saying that there is a possibility of say, I plug in a random USB steering wheel into USB port 1 on the DSU, upload the driver files from a USB thumb drive (found off of the manufacturer's website) and then program using the various functions and classes using the WindRiver IDE?

Hopefully someone releases some precompiled header files so that we have steering control instead of joysticks.
That's not exactly true. Right now, the only joysticks/steering wheels/etc. that the DS supports are standard HID joystick devices that don't require drivers. There's no (published, anyway) way to get any special drivers onto the DS. (see section 3.1.8 of the control system manual or look around the beta forums)

Also, keep in mind that the Driver's Station is Linux based so if there were a way to use drivers, then they'd have to be for that platform.
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