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From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:41:01PM +0100, Peter B wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to program an "ordinary" (like Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3)) USB
> host controller into acting as an usb device instead? (just like scsi can).
> 
> Idea:
>   M$Win-Usb -> FreeBSD-USB#1  .. software .. FreeBSD-USB#2 -> Device
> 
> The advantage would be then to possible use scripts to debug protocol in order
> to port drivers to freebsd.
> 
> 
> Ref: ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/e7500/datashts/29073303.pdf

Wouldn't being able to do that violate the design criteria of USB?

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