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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Kallol Biswas <kallol.biswas@efi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netchip's net2280 usb 2.0 device
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:55:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E889D34.3000303@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E85CA77.2020301@pacbell.net

David Brownell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>      We have been using the net2280 chip (usb 2.0) as a usb target
>> printer device. We have been seeing data corruption problems
>> during a bulk out transfer when data is taken out the device
>> quite slow.  The corruption size is only 4 bytes suggesting
>> a device problem. Is anyone using this chip and has anyone
>> encountered similar problem?
> 
> 
> I've certainly been using it ... there's a Linux driver for it,
> part of a "USB Gadget" framework that could support other such
> "target mode" hardware, at http://kernel.bkbits.net/~david-b
> for general use.  (Download from BK, the 2.5.64 patch doesn't
> include the net2280 driver and there's no 2.4 patch yet.  I'll
> send out an announcement soon, when I update the patches.)

Just done.  There are now patches for 2.4 and 2.5 kernels.


> I haven't run into that particular problem, but it sounds
> like it might be a known erratum ... have you asked NetChip, or
> checked the 14-March errata at their website?  They've been
> pretty responsive to my questions.

I have in mind particularly erratum 0106 ... which might have
been what was making my TTCP testing from working.  Well, at
least the latest code for that is now behaving.

- Dave



>> Is there any other 2.0 usb chip that can be used as a target mode
>> device?
> 
> 
> The net2280 is the only such chip I know of that talks PCI
> directly.  So it's particularly Linux-friendly:  it doesn't
> need special bus adapter hardware.
> 
> - Dave
> 
> 




  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-31 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-29 16:31 netchip's net2280 usb 2.0 device David Brownell
2003-03-31 19:55 ` David Brownell [this message]
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2003-03-29  0:34 Kallol Biswas

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