From: Forrest Kenney [Forrest.Kenney@compaq.com.doom]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:01 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: VMS Engineering and fun/unusual hardware, was: Re:
Multimedia Doc


    The problem is not doing the driver work it is qualifying and supporting
J-random PCI USB card.  First there are
two competing controller models OHCI and UHCI we have drivers for OHCI but not
UHIC.  Beyond that there
are many OHCI controllers out there each with their own cute and ugly bugs.  We do
not have the resources to test
and qualify each and every one of these cards.

    Having said that we have done most of the USB development using a couple
different add in PCI cards and after
in some cases spending many weeks working around bugs in the cards got them
working.  So if someone wants to
add in an OHCI compliant card and use the code there is nothing preventing that.
But they will get no support for
Compaq.  At the present time we cannot commit to a date when the code will be
available it won't be released until
the legacy free systems are shipping.


Forrest Kenney
OpenVMS USB project leader