From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: usbd - revision (Was: [9fans] USB developments)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:32:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116123241.R25947@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003e01c3dc1a$c619dcf0$8201a8c0@cc77109e>; from Bruce Ellis on Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:23:16PM +1100
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:23:16PM +1100, Bruce Ellis wrote:
>
> usb ends in tears because the vendors are quite happy to
> send undocumented stuff to undocumented ports. and it's
> fine 'cause they have a windows driver for it.
>
Maybe I'm just farting in the wind, but imagine that Plan 9 had a
USB infrastructure that "just worked". So much so that device
vendors would not need to provide device drivers for their units,
they could rely on Plan 9 to supply the driver on condition they
tighten up slightly on their design. To a clear, simple spec.
Wouldn't that annoy Microsoft?
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-16 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 6:16 [9fans] USB developments Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 8:23 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 8:42 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 9:13 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 9:17 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 10:05 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 10:23 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 13:02 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 14:05 ` Richard Miller
2004-01-15 14:44 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 14:56 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 15:20 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 15:41 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 14:53 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 21:25 ` Dan Cross
2004-01-15 10:30 ` usbd - revision (Was: [9fans] USB developments) Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 10:46 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 11:47 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 12:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-01-15 12:43 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 18:01 ` C H Forsyth
2004-01-15 19:10 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 20:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-01-15 21:00 ` Micah Stetson
2004-01-16 6:18 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-16 7:34 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-16 7:38 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-16 7:59 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-16 10:23 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-01-16 10:32 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
2004-01-16 10:39 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-16 10:45 ` Richard Miller
2004-01-16 11:41 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-01-16 11:50 ` rog
2004-01-15 9:07 ` [9fans] USB developments Charles Forsyth
2004-01-15 9:18 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-15 10:39 ` Lucio De Re
2004-01-15 10:48 ` Richard Miller
2004-01-15 9:10 ` Richard Miller
2004-01-15 9:14 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-01-16 9:59 ` boyd, rounin
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