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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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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.

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