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Re: [Xen-users] usb passthrough

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] usb passthrough
From: Chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:26:29 -0500
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That makes sense however one would think USB 2.0 support would be a good feature to have. There's quite a bit of people looking to utilize pci passthrough and I'd imagine USB passthrough would be similarly useful

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On Feb 26, 2010, at 7:36 PM, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:


I wonder why it's limited to 1.1 i would imagine that is a hard coded
limit but given a faster system shouldn't the emulation be faster? Who
could shed more light on why?


Well if it talks to the device in '1.1 mode' then the limit will still apply.

At a guess, maybe the 1.1 hardware interface is a bit simpler? I suspect that they already implemented USB 1.1 to support the mouse and tablet interface, and passthrough was not much harder, but 2.0/3.0 implementation would have been a lot more work.

James

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