Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:02:48 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EHCI considered harmful? Message-ID: <200410292002.52978.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20041029134511.04ff09a8@64.7.153.2> References: <20041029075930.GG701@marvin.riggiland.au> <200410291930.30626.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <6.1.2.0.0.20041029134511.04ff09a8@64.7.153.2>
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--nextPart1463782.mL266r0MTv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 29. October 2004 19:47, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 01:30 PM 29/10/2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > On my Intel 865 box, its pretty easy for me to lock the system up with > > > 2 different types of USB key drives (Lexar and SANDISK). The system > > > also sporadically locks up at boot time, if I have a Keyspan USB-Seri= al > > > device plugged in using EHCI. For new users, I think its more > > > important that the system works. > > > >There are similar issues all over USB in FreeBSD, that's not a good > > rationale to leave ehci out of GENERIC. > > With the base USB ? Regular USB works just fine for me on the same > hardware. USB 2.0 is hardly off-base or irregular. Just the fact that you're making t= his=20 distinction tells me that ehci support on FreeBSD is getting not enough=20 exposure. I'm afraid if it'll remain hidden like it is now, it'll never get= =20 into any decent shape. > Can you quantify what you mean by similar ?=20 There is one rather recent PR about a crash with a 1.1 device (PR 63621), a= =20 "Detaching USB stick crashes BETA4/BETA5" thread about one month ago and=20 searching -CURRENT for mails with "usb" subject lines turns up an awful lot= =20 of issues, bugs, hangs, crashes, you name it, pretty much all of them on 1.= 1=20 hardware. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1463782.mL266r0MTv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBgoXMXhc68WspdLARApqTAJ91FAKW5pcGqutBE105S7xuEW/AbgCggiLx zM5y1HcmS/A4r0XBCNCoZ8w= =oTC8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1463782.mL266r0MTv--
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