[OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Re: Support for USB3?

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

I'm just guessing, but probably licensing is on the top of the list of
problems. I don't know how compatible BSD license is with CDDL.

I'm not a developer or a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.

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- Alex Smith
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Philip Robar <philip.robar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via
> openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>
>> Writing [a USB3] driver from scratch is out of question...
>>
>
> As a naive, but fascinated lurker, I'm curious as to why? Is it because of
> the limited resources available in the OpenIndiana community or lack of
> interest in the Illumos community? If most other OSs (Windows, OS X, Linux,
> BSD, Solaris) all support USB 3 then why can't Illumos? If BSD's
> implementation isn't useful, how about Darwin's?
>
> Phil
>
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