Subject: USB support
To: None <netbsd-announce@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
List: netbsd-announce
Date: 07/13/1998 00:19:19
I have just added USB (Universal Serial Bus) support to NetBSD-current.
What we have:
* A UHCI (the Intel standard) host controller driver.
* A OHCI (everyone else's standard) host controller driver.
* A host controller independent framework for handling the
devices. This framework presents a mostly USBDI compliant
interface to the drivers.
+ Support for all kinds of transfers (control, interrupt, bulk,
and isochronous).
* Power budgeting.
+ Bandwidth budgeting.
* A hub driver.
* A mouse driver.
* A keyboard driver for keyboards supporting the boot protocol.
* A generic HID (Human Interface Device) driver for
those devices that do not have a special driver.
* A printer driver.
+ A totally generic driver to handle leftover devices.
+ An audio driver.
[The + means work in progress.]
What we don't have:
- Proper handling of devices that are disconnected. NetBSD lacks
the functionality for this.
- Suspend/resume handling. I think this is simply a matter of
sitting down and writing some code.
- A communication class driver.
- Drivers for a lot of proprietary devices.
- Loadable device drivers.
-- Lennart Augustsson