Sam440 and USB. Does it work?

[takemehomegrandma]

mihcael wrote:
An open source poseidon driver would benifit all!!

poseidon port

Poseidon rocks, there is *nothing* like it, it's *the Amiga USB standard*!  :-D

I have no experience from USB on OS4/Sam/A1, but from what I read the OS4 USB merely supports a fraction of Poseidon's supported devices, it only support USB 1 and is quite buggy at the moment, like not recognizing devices and/or dropping devices already connected and corrupting files.

I think OS4 would *really benefit* if they decided to go for Poseidon instead and drop what they have now. :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

xeron wrote:

So you're basing your entire opinion on some threads where people had trouble.

Indeed I do, and this is because there has been quite a few of them.

Anyway, my point is that when you put all things together, USB in OS4 is nowhere near Poseidon when it comes to Performance, Stability and amount of Supported Devices. With the current OS4 USB stack you can't do as much as you can with Poseidon, you can't do it as fast, and you can't do it as secure and stable. And instead of inventing the wheel again and spend the work and man hours to try to fix the issues and bring it up to Poseidon's level, it would be much better to simply put in the remaining $2045 and use those sources to warp OS4 to the USB standard the rest of the Amiga community enjoys. Everyone would benefit, including the Open Source part of the community. Would be a great thing! :-)

[takemehomegrandma]

Xeron, I didn't come here to fight you about obvious things. This is getting ridiculous. Fact is that the USB stack in OS4 has always been one of the greatest weaknesses of the OS compared to other Amiga solutions, and ever since the first pre-release up till version 4.1 it has been one of the *least* prioritized areas of development, where not much has happened during the years. A user asks about *the current* situation, and the bottom line of your answer is that it will get better in the future. Well, the future is a vague and uncertain thing. This day was the future two years ago, and the USB situation hasn't changed much since then. *My* answer is simply that Poseidon is by far the best USB solution the Amiga has, and OS4 would have so much to gain from going that route instead, would earn some extra credit by supporting open source development as well. And then you are lowering yourself to character assassination. :roll: