Firmware Support for USB Hub

Misbah khan misbah_khan at engineer.com
Thu Nov 22 21:27:06 EST 2007






Laurent Pinchart-4 wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 21 November 2007 18:20, Scott Wood wrote:
>> Misbah khan wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I am using a 8248 processor which has a USB controller and i need to
>> > connect a USB Hub to it, iam using Montavista Linux .I need to know
>> that
>> > what are the support i need form Montavista or Open source to have an
>> > interface with Usb hub. ???
>> >
>> > Is there any driver that we need to make if so what type ???
>>
>> I don't believe a driver currently exists for CPM USB.
> 
> There's an experimental out-of-tree driver available at 
> http://cpm2usb.sourceforge.net/
> 
> The code is outdated and doesn't work, but that's a starting point.
> 
> can you suggest me the problems both in terms of H/W S/W and Montavista
> ????
> 
> If I remember correctly, CPM2 USB host support requires the host to create
> SOF 
> packets in software. High system loads will probably mess the bus up. A 
> colleague of mines was told by Freescale to use an external USB controller 
> instead of the MPC8248 bundled one.
> 
> I have posted this quarry to freescale. Anyway if you get more information
> could you please share with me ??
> 
> 
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