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USB v2.0 Support Added To NetBSD

Posted by timothy on from the universality-indeed dept.

hubertf writes: "There's news over at the NetBSD web site that Lennart Augustsson has added support for USB v2.0 devices into NetBSD-current. The new ehci driver is still in development but is in a working state for some mass storage devices, such as CD-RW drives. USB v2.0 offers a vast speed improvement (480Mb/s instead of 12Mb/s) over the original USB specification, and retains a good level of compatibility. For more details, see Lennart's announcement on current-users@netbsd.org."

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  1. USB 2.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I guess if they can keep the CPU suckage to a minimum at full speed, USB 2.0 might make an interesting networking system.