USB and such

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Mon Dec 5 04:58:21 CST 2005


Bert Thomas wrote:
> Hans Franke wrote:
> 
>> Am 2 Dec 2005 7:47 meinte Cini, Richard:
>>
>> *1 - In fact, if I had to design a new system today, I would use
>>      USB as a bus structure to be used for add on cards. Simple
>>      handling, no interface problems, no electrical problems,easy
>>      driver structure and fast enough for almost everything, even
>>      including graphics.
> 
> 
> Can you by any chance point me in a direction where to find 
> documentation about USB? Would I need special licenses to obtain the specs?
> I would like to have the hardware programming information.

A good place to start would be the NetBSD kernel.  That's more of a 
"worked example" than spec, but if you're interested in writing code 
that uses USB it's probably the best implementation.

Gordon.



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