Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 296
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from Neowin.net "Sarah Sharp, a self-styled 'geekess' and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. This makes Linux the first operating system to support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now." Here's Sharp's post.
yay (Score:1, Informative)
And I'll adopt it after it's been out for a while and everyone else works the bugs out.
I don't want first, I want stable.
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:1, Informative)
Looks good to me:
http://sarah.thesharps.us/
Re:About time! (Score:1, Informative)
USB 3.0 doesn't significantly change any of the class definitions. The standard USB drivers will need little, if any, changes to fully support USB 3.0 devices.
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:5, Informative)
That's simply not true. The USB 3.0 spec. is mostly concerned with the phy. & bus. The xHCI spec covers the HCD. The software-level device interfaces have not changed, or have changed very little.
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:5, Informative)
I'm only making an educated guess, but it seems to me that the drivers for the actual device don't change much.
For example: the same USB HID drivers work on 1 or 2. The very same network driver works on my internal ethernet port and my ExpressCard.
Kind of like how WoW doesn't care if you're on wired or wireless, any decent driver should be high-level enough not to care if you're on USB 2 or 3.
Re:Wasn't it also the first for USB too? (Score:1, Informative)
USB 2.0. I'll guarantee you that USB 1.x was running on Windows long before linux. >.> .
Re:It means almost nothing (Score:3, Informative)
Tabbed browsing
Cue the Opera fanboys.
Re:Is this really a nice thing for USB3? (Score:3, Informative)
There is nothing stopping MS from _never_ releasing drivers and such "Linux gets support first" gestures could either be a kick to them or could guarantee USB3 becoming a failure just because MS didn't include drivers.
Not really. You're wrong because:
Re:It means almost nothing (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:4, Informative)
According to this [hothardware.com]:
There's some good info in that article.
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.woolfsimmonds.co.uk/sarah-sharp.html [woolfsimmonds.co.uk]
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:5, Informative)
Err, Mrs LizardKing once said that she'd attempted sex when she had the painters in, and that it was uncomfortable because the menstrual blood caused chafing. Apparently a ladies "red wee" is a bit like unstrained orange juice - it's got bits in it.
And no, I can hardly believe we're discussing menstruation on Slashdot. In response to an article about a serial interface.
Isn't this useless without USB 3.0 hardware? (Score:2, Informative)
I haven't seen any USB 3.0 devices for sale yet. I suspect that they won't appear until sometime after Windows and Mac support USB 3. So, as cool as this is, there is no need to rush off and implement it on your own now. You can wait until your next kernel update.
Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral (Score:4, Informative)
I love it when people who don't know what they're talking about correct me. The -ess morpheme was a productive morpheme for feminine nouns in English, round about the 16th century. There are a number of borrowings into English from French that use -ess(e) which are feminine forms, but was also used to form novel feminine words, such as authoress, giantess, Jewess, patroness, poetess, priestess, quakeress, tailoress, seamstress, and songstress - none of which are borrowings.
Except that, of course, there's nothing incorrect about it - outmoded perhaps, but an obvious fact in the lexicon.
Not sure what your point is; why not also consider:
leather and leatherette (a kind of fake leather), or
usher and usherette (a female usher).
Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral (Score:2, Informative)
"Actress" is also a correct word, specifically for female.
No, it's a nonsense word. Like Doctoress or Plumberess. It is forced into the vocabulary by women who, for some reason, feel equal means making up new words. I blame Hollywood for being to afraid to correct it.
Dictionary.com (based on Random House Dictionary) disagrees [reference.com]. Given the late 16th century origin of actress, any nefarious feminist plot seems awfully unlikely. And it seems to me that the entertainment industry is moving toward using the gender-neutral actor, which Dictionary.com confirms [reference.com] in its discussion of -ess. We're generally moving away from -ess, but many such usages are still considered correct. A few might never go away.
- T
Re:Any USB 3.0 hardware? (Score:3, Informative)
Asus and Gigabyte both have USB 3.0 mobos.
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:3, Informative)
You guys are fucking creepy.
Re:Linux is full of fail (Score:2, Informative)
Slashdot suffers just as badly from the same moronic posts an ill informed individuals that think there poorly thought out opinions are facts,
Yes, apparently it does.
Re:Ask anyone on street what 666 stands for (Score:1, Informative)
guess what, you're tender hypersensitivity is not representative of this so-called "real world" not everybody is barking up the antisemitism tree all day long. there are plenty of casses where the letters SS exist which have nothing to do with the Nazi era or racism or anything of the sort. as mentioned SS stands for Super Sport among car enthusiasts, old people generally know SS as Social Security in the US, if you're of a naval background SS stands for Sailing Ship or Steam Ship, and a quick google search reveals taht a number of companies and organizations are abbreviated SS.
Stop Screaming
you
Silly Sod
Re:CPU usage? (Score:5, Informative)
So does that mean CPU usage will be 100% when I copy files to a hard drive?
USB 3.0 does away with polling (which is what causes the high CPU usage) with an asynchronous event model whereby the device controller sends service requests to the host (unfortunately, I can't find a great reference for this, although they mention it here [inno-logic.com]).
Or, to put it another way, it allows USB to enter the 20th century. :)
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:5, Informative)
Bah, pictures mean nothing. Check out her youtube video [youtube.com]
Re:Could someone post a link? (Score:1, Informative)
Uhmm, there's more then one person with that name...
http://sarah.thesharps.us/ [thesharps.us]
Re:Another win for OSS community (Score:3, Informative)
What was your hand doing with the painters?
It's a British expression for menstruation. Alternatives include:
I suggest you check out The Profanisaurus [wikipedia.org] for the full list
Re:Years ahead and years behind (Score:1, Informative)
Oh Mr Coward, how wrong you are. It's a simply matter of adding "padsp" to the beginning of the menu item. So "padsp skype" will make skype work in pulse audio.
The same can be done with WINE. "padsp winecfg", click on the audio tab and select the OSS driver, then exit. Now when starting your wine app type "padsp wine appname.exe"