From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 20 08:42:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA08460 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merix.merix.com (merix.merix.com [198.145.172.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08444 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:42:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandy.merix.com by merix.merix.com with SMTP (1.38.110.45/16.2) id AA268791994; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:53:14 -0700 Received: by sandy.merix.com (4.1/8.0) id AA16564; Fri, 20 Jun 97 08:38:46 PDT Date: Fri, 20 Jun 97 08:38:46 PDT Subject: USB -- How tricky will it be to support? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Troy Curtiss Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hackers, How tricky is USB going to be to support? Some of the mechanisms such as hot plug/unplug, auto-detection and driver allocation, addressing, and etc. don't look easy... The paradigm feels like a cross between the PC-Card stuff (for the plug/unplug) and a PCI-bus (for addressing and detection). Anybody toyed with supporting USB yet? I'm curious what angle to attack this subsystem from. Cheers, -Troy -- /-----------------------------------------------------------\ | Troy Curtiss, HW/SW Engineer | Email: troyc@merix.com | | Merix Corporation, CL-302 | Phone: (970) 203-6643 | | Loveland, CO 80537 | Fax : (970) 203-6610 | \-----------------------------------------------------------/