Would work on octeon USB3 be a benefit to other platforms as well? AFAICT octeon is a hideously slow platform with no need for anything faster than USB2.
Is anyone willing to handhold me during my first forray into OpenBSD kernel development? On Fri, 2019-09-27 at 08:49 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Oh yes, that's a great idea, we should simply install workarounds all > the time, rather than keeping the problems visible, so that someone > will fix it properly. > > > Rudolf Leitgeb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Since octeons are not exactly high power CPUs, wouldn't it > > suffice to treat its USB3 port as USB2 port for now, at least > > as an option? From playing with the system I have the strong > > impression, that a performance difference would not be noticed. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rudi > > > > On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 07:04 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > xhci + usb3 is known to be fragile, especially on octeon. > > > > > > workaround is to use a usb2 hub between. better would be for > > > new people working in our usb stack.
