Re: [Etherboot-developers] USB NICs and Etherboot RFC

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"Timothy Legge" <tl...@ro...> writes:

> Hi
> 
> Being a sucker for punishment and the owner of an unsupported NIC, the
> Pegasus based Linksys adapter, I keep giving some thought to what would
> be required to implement USB support for Etherboot.
> 
> So far I have been merely brave enough download some of the USB Specs.
> Any thoughts on what would be required, the practicality of porting the
> Linux code, etc.  With the limited number of usb NICS (most are Pegasus
> based I believe) would implementing a full usb subsystem make sense, or
> would implementing the required code within the driver itself be more
> desirable.
> 
> Any comments would be most welcome.

I think implementing the required code as a usb subsystem is a reasonable
way to go.  usb is a lot like pci so all of the plug and play goodies
for detecting which nic to use come into play.  So it should
be reasonably clean.

There are a number of other cases that could be fun like a usb disk
driver that could be useful as well.

Eric