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Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Neowin.net "Sarah Sharp, a self-styled 'geekess' and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. This makes Linux the first operating system to support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now." Here's Sharp's post.
That's simply not true. The USB 3.0 spec. is mostly concerned with the phy. & bus. The xHCI spec covers the HCD. The software-level device interfaces have not changed, or have changed very little.
Syllable : It's an Operating System
I'm only making an educated guess, but it seems to me that the drivers for the actual device don't change much.
For example: the same USB HID drivers work on 1 or 2. The very same network driver works on my internal ethernet port and my ExpressCard.
Kind of like how WoW doesn't care if you're on wired or wireless, any decent driver should be high-level enough not to care if you're on USB 2 or 3.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Neither Amiga (Virtual desktops in 1985) or NeWS (tabbed windows and browsing, 1988) were open source.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
According to this:
There's some good info in that article.
Err, Mrs LizardKing once said that she'd attempted sex when she had the painters in, and that it was uncomfortable because the menstrual blood caused chafing. Apparently a ladies "red wee" is a bit like unstrained orange juice - it's got bits in it.
And no, I can hardly believe we're discussing menstruation on Slashdot. In response to an article about a serial interface.
I love it when people who don't know what they're talking about correct me. The -ess morpheme was a productive morpheme for feminine nouns in English, round about the 16th century. There are a number of borrowings into English from French that use -ess(e) which are feminine forms, but was also used to form novel feminine words, such as authoress, giantess, Jewess, patroness, poetess, priestess, quakeress, tailoress, seamstress, and songstress - none of which are borrowings.
Except that, of course, there's nothing incorrect about it - outmoded perhaps, but an obvious fact in the lexicon.
Not sure what your point is; why not also consider:
leather and leatherette (a kind of fake leather), or
usher and usherette (a female usher).
You guys are fucking creepy.
So does that mean CPU usage will be 100% when I copy files to a hard drive?
USB 3.0 does away with polling (which is what causes the high CPU usage) with an asynchronous event model whereby the device controller sends service requests to the host (unfortunately, I can't find a great reference for this, although they mention it here).
Or, to put it another way, it allows USB to enter the 20th century. :)
"Looks good to me:"
Bah, pictures mean nothing. Check out her youtube video
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