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

[Gary Mills]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 05:54:05PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Oh, and just for a note, USB is *not* like writing another type of driver.
> The entire USB framework is a scary beast all of its own, and sadly it also
> uses & abuses STREAMs.  Implementing a modern USB3 stack should really be
> done by creating a new nexus framework, and converting some of the leaf
> drivers to it.  Our entire USB framework really needs some serious lovin’.
>   But again, its just a problem finding priority and skills in confluence.

Clearly, rewriting the USB stack is a big project.  Is there any way
that this can be broken down into pieces?  If that were possible,
several people could work on different aspects of USB at the same time
without affecting eachother.  Starting the project would be simpler
too.

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