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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:28:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: daveh@tamis.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc.
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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> Jamie Bowden stands accused of saying:
> > On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, David Holloway wrote:
> > 
> > > I see USB as another good way to 
> > > get around the ever present "not enough irqs" problem
> > 
> > Damn, I was hoping for an intelligent bus design that gave each bus
> > interface it's own dedicated data channel, like high end workstations
> > have.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at here; from the top of the
> USB stack, that's more or less the way it is.  The problem is just
> that that stack is a fairly hairy animal; it has a lot of
> functionality, but you pay for it.
> 
> I suspect you were referring to separate physical channels, no?

Yep.

Jamie Bowden

System Administrator, iTRiBE.net