Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 06:19:46 +0100 From: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@gmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: What is wrong with FreeBSD and USB Support Message-ID: <CA%2BO4pCK4%2B1rE5ft4Boy_3xPdCxK31UtTQ2BYpnBUn5jxZr%2Bz_g@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I have been trying to port a driver to freebsd for a day now and the result is quite negative. So my feedback about libusb20 and the FreeBSD USB Kernel Stack: 1. the documentation is not clear how to set up asynchronous bulk transfers (please explain the architecture of this API) 2. the errors returned by libusb20 (and probably from the kernel) are not detailed enough (in certain cases I'm able to get libusb20 unknown error, to my understanding every error should have some meaning). 3. the FreeBSD USB Stack messes around with the transfer itself damaging the entire result (eg resulting in stalled USB bulk transfers). 4. The FreeBSD data transfer implementation itself is a disaster, I'm able to transfer data at a rate of 2 MB/sec, anything higher results in a stalled usb transfer?! 5. USB Control messages are 100% slower than with other operating systems (eg. it took 14 seconds to load a driver with FreeBSD while it only takes 7 seconds on other systems). Since I have been using USB stacks with Linux, Mac and some other systems I can say that FreeBSD has the most irritating implementation of all. So finally I wonder what is wrong with FreeBSD's USB support? Best Regards, Markus
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