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.

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