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USB v2.0 Support Added To NetBSD 13

Posted by timothy 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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  • USB 2.0 (Score:2, Interesting)

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

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