On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Steve Addison wrote: > I need to add a USB host controller chip to an embedded product that's > running a kernel 2.4.18 > When selecting a host controller chip, I'm wondering about drivers. Are > pretty much all OHCI chips > handled by the generic OHCI drivers?
Lots of them are. I would hesitate to say that all of them are. > Also, I noticed that in the 2.6 kernel driver source, it looks like > there are quite a few drivers for > specific host chips (linux\drivers\usb\host). Are these chips that > differ from the OHCI/UHCI "standards" > enough that they need special drivers? No. They differ from the "standard" in that they use a platform-specific interface instead of PCI. Otherwise they are pretty much the same as any other OHCI controller. > Or would any chip need a specific > driver? You probably can answer this question yourself. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
