USB (Was: Filesystem support...)
From: cbbrowne@godel.brownes.org [mailto:cbbrowne@godel.brownes.org]
> OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> > From: "David Waite" <mass@ufl.edu>
> > Subject: RE: Filesystem support (and wondering about current
> projects ,and a
> crash)
> > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:04:09 -0400
> > > -USB support.
> >
> > Wow, do you need USB support really? USB support is interesting, but
> > I think no one is working on it.
>
> Note that Linux does not yet have USB support, and that there
> only recently
> started to be peripherals available to use USB.
>
> Doubtless It Would Be Nice To Have, but certainly not critical at
> this time.
> Many things would be Nicer To Have.
Critical now, no. But there are already systems out that do not have any
peripheral connectors besides USB (iMac), and several other PCs in
development that are USB-only. There are also many hints that the PC2000
spec will try to remove USB altoghether, and USB 2.0 is gearing up for a
minimum 10x speed increase (they are aiming much higher from the few rumors
I have heard- they want it to kill firewire) - that means USB storage.
Also USB is an extremely complicated bus from the documentation I have been
reading (the reason Linux doesn't have support yet).
I will probably end up designing some USB hardware and writing W9x USB
drivers for my employer soon, so I am toying around with the idea of
implementing a USB stack for Hurd.
"Toying around" because I am still a far shot away from understanding
kernel-level programming (at least with Linux I know what device driver code
looks like).
I would agree though that right now, there are a lot of things that would be
Nicer To Have.
-David Waite
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