From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 5 19:22:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA21194 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onyx.atipa.com (user16090@ns.atipa.com [208.128.22.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA21185 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 1018); 6 Aug 1997 02:25:14 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:25:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa X-Sender: freebsd@dot.ishiboo.com To: Michael Smith cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. In-Reply-To: <199708060205.LAA01878@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It does, indeed, have lots of "potential". It's also an incredible > PITA to understand at the protocol level, much less actually work with. 8( I was wondering about that... > > power allows for MUCH nicer cabling. With the powers that be* supporting > > USB, it would be foolish to show up late to the party. > > It would also be foolish to leap in in a hurry and waste scarce > developer resources on the next fad. Time is most certainly a precious commodity. Hearing the PITA nature, I can see why this is by no means "urgent"... > > Even without broad peripheral support, consumer demand is high. It is our > > business to fill demands for hardware, and I can tell you lots of > > people are very interested. > > I think that the lack of peripheral support is telling; particularly > the custom silicon that is almost critical to producing a > cost-effective peripheral just hasn't made it to market yet. At the > moment, a peripheral vendor has to undertake development of peripheral > firmware several orders of magnitude more complex than anything that > has ever been seen before, or wait for the silicon. Good observations! That was the answer I was looking for. Kevin