Re: NetBSD and iPod touch?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:26:44 -0700
Chuck Swiger <cswiger%mac.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Jun 12, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > So, I've been "lucky" and just won an iPod Touch.  I don't have it  
> > yet, but
> > it should arrive with the mail somewhat soon.  In the meantime
> > I've read
> > that you need iTunes software to be able to use it, but I don't
> > run Mac OSX
> > nor Windows at home.  Is there a way to use an iPod Touch with
> > NetBSD?
> 
> There's http://www.gtkpod.org, which runs on FreeBSD and Linux, so
> it should be portable to NetBSD as well.  I'm not sure whether it  
> supports the Touch yet, though.  There's also
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/ that mentions limited support for
> the Touch.
> 
gtkpod is in pkgsrc, but I don't know if we have the pieces to make a
uhid look like a file system.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb