Does the DDK suports USB devices on Linux?

Question

Hi, I would like to know if the current version of the DDK supports USB devices on Linux. Here are the details of the setup I would like to use. There are important because the computer to be use is not a typical PC.
The USB device would be from the USB 62xx DAQ family, probably a 6218 model.
The computer to be used is an industrial PC/104 board from VIPER.
The processor of this computer is an ARM Xscale, and the operating system is an embedded Linux from ARCOM, with Kernel 2.6.
Form the programming point of view, the embedded OS is like any other Linux, just with very limited resources, like memory and storage space. In fact, the developing process has to be done using cross-compilation of C and C++ code (with arm-linux-gcc and arm-linux-g++).
The NI-DAQ Base drivers could be installed on the computer used to do the development and cross-compilation, but I do not know if these drivers could be used to make standalone programs for the embedded system (correct me if I’m wrong). So, I think my only option would be to use the DDK. The problem is that I have read in this forum (probably an old answer) that the DDK does not support USB devices. Is that right?
Resuming, I need some enlightenment before decide what DAQ device to purchase.
The short version of the question is: would it be possible to use and USB 62xx Device in an embedded computer with an ARM Xscale processor and ARCOM embedded Linux OS? If that so, could I use the NI-DAQ Base or it has to be the DDK?
Have in mind that my application is not very demanding in terms of performance. Mainly, I want to be able to perform DA and AD operations, and to use a counter (DMA and IRQ support is not essential).
Any help would be greatly appreciate,
Best Regards,
EH
Message Edited by maxborn on 06-05-2008 01:29 PM

Answer 1

Hi folks,
Tom's link in his reply (above) still has the most up-to-date information:
Register Level Programming for OEM Customers
http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/exyv4w?opendocument
Joe Friedchicken
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