3 The "ohci-hcd" driver is a USB Host Controller Driver (HCD) that is derived
4 from the "usb-ohci" driver from the 2.4 kernel series. The "usb-ohci" code
5 was written primarily by Roman Weissgaerber <weissg@vienna.at> but with
6 contributions from many others (read its copyright/licencing header).
8 It supports the "Open Host Controller Interface" (OHCI), which standardizes
9 hardware register protocols used to talk to USB 1.1 host controllers. As
10 compared to the earlier "Universal Host Controller Interface" (UHCI) from
11 Intel, it pushes more intelligence into the hardware. USB 1.1 controllers
12 from vendors other than Intel and VIA generally use OHCI.
14 Changes since the 2.4 kernel include
16 - improved robustness; bugfixes; and less overhead
17 - supports the updated and simplified usbcore APIs
18 - interrupt transfers can be larger, and can be queued
19 - less code, by using the upper level "hcd" framework
20 - supports some non-PCI implementations of OHCI
23 The "ohci-hcd" driver handles all USB 1.1 transfer types. Transfers of all
24 types can be queued. That was also true in "usb-ohci", except for interrupt
25 transfers. Previously, using periods of one frame would risk data loss due
26 to overhead in IRQ processing. When interrupt transfers are queued, those
27 risks can be minimized by making sure the hardware always has transfers to
28 work on while the OS is getting around to the relevant IRQ processing.
31 <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>