USB 3.0 Enabled in -current

Contributed by tbert on 2014-11-10 from the USB-3.0-the-legend-of-puffy's-gold dept.

For those of you who missed it on Friday, Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) enabled USB 3.0 support in OpenBSD:

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	mpi@cvs.openbsd.org	2014/11/07 09:44:18

Modified files:
	sys/arch/i386/conf: GENERIC 
	sys/arch/amd64/conf: GENERIC 

Log message:
Enable xhci(4).  Most of the features are here, USB 1.x devices only work
if they are connected to the root hub and isochronous transfers are not
supported for the moment.

Let me know if your controller/device do not work.  In this case attach a
dmesg of a kernel build with XHCI_DEBUG.

ok deraadt@

Not everyone missed it, of course, with problem reports and fixes being seen over the weekend.

For those of you who'd been looking forward to using those blue USB ports of yours, now's the time to plug in as many 3.0 devices as you can find!

Edit: Of course, just about the time we publish this story, USB1.x devices are now supported on a USB3.x controller.

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Comments

By Anonymous Coward (89.128.80.199) on 2014-11-16 14:22

I am surprised not seeing any comments on this important improvement yet.

Thanks a lot, mpi@, for this nice improvement and for the hard work you, and other developers, spent on this driver on the last ten months. To OpenBSD users and sys admins, please test this driver as carefully as possible to ensure the highest quality release and wider hardware support, not only on 3.0 devices but also on legacy ones when connected to USB 3.0 ports. And do not miss donating required hardware, not only USB devices but also USB 3.0-ready computers to developers!
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1. By Brad (2001:470:b01e:3:1449:b794:ca69:f111) on 2014-11-17 02:11
  
  > I am surprised not seeing any comments on this important improvement yet.
  
  Less talking and more action.
2. By Ralph Siegler (ralphsiegler) on 2014-11-17 19:15 http://www.rsiegler.org
  
  > I am surprised not seeing any comments on this important improvement yet.
  >
  
  Probably has to do with the typical usage of OpenBSD.
  
  I use openbsd for servers and appliance and USB not used except for attaching a keyboard at times. This might be something for future consideration, some vendors are making usb 3.0 attached RAID and also disk modules with removable disk cartridge (kind of like a Bernoulli drive but with 10,000 times the capacity of ye olden days)
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  1. By Anonymous Coward (2001:470:b01e:3:f879:af8b:86a7:b1d1) on 2014-11-18 00:39
    
    > Probably has to do with the typical usage of OpenBSD.
    
    Sounds like an assumption which isn't true.

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