Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:25:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970805201945.14539B-100000@dot.ishiboo.com> In-Reply-To: <199708060205.LAA01878@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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> It does, indeed, have lots of "potential". It's also an incredible > PITA to understand at the protocol level, much less actually work with. 8( I was wondering about that... > > power allows for MUCH nicer cabling. With the powers that be* supporting > > USB, it would be foolish to show up late to the party. > > It would also be foolish to leap in in a hurry and waste scarce > developer resources on the next fad. Time is most certainly a precious commodity. Hearing the PITA nature, I can see why this is by no means "urgent"... > > Even without broad peripheral support, consumer demand is high. It is our > > business to fill demands for hardware, and I can tell you lots of > > people are very interested. > > I think that the lack of peripheral support is telling; particularly > the custom silicon that is almost critical to producing a > cost-effective peripheral just hasn't made it to market yet. At the > moment, a peripheral vendor has to undertake development of peripheral > firmware several orders of magnitude more complex than anything that > has ever been seen before, or wait for the silicon. Good observations! That was the answer I was looking for. Kevin
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