Re: USB 3.0 (Re: NetBSD 6.0)

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Magnus Eriksson wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> > I can't even access the USB 3.0 hard drive under NetBSD as USB < 3.0.
>
> Really?  I was under the impression that USB 3 was supposed to be backwards 
> compatible.  Do you get errors, or nothing at all when you plug it in?
>
> ...or are there already USB 3-only machines out there?
>
>
> > It appears FreeBSD and Linux are the only viable open-source 
> > general-purpose OSes on my new computer.
>
> Well, no one is going to think less of you for switching if another OS suits 
> your circumstances or hardware better.

Or even better, liaise with hselasky@freebsd and work on updating his 
NetBSD-3 era port of his USB stack (which is now the default in FreeBSD) 
to NetBSD -current. devpubd can only make things easier.

--
Stephen