USB Drivers

USB Drivers for Solaris

USB devices are becoming more and more popular in the world and they are important for users. Solaris now supports the following devices:

• Three kinds of host controllers: uhci, ohci, ehci
• USB printer
• USB storage
• USB serial adapters from three vendors: Digi, Keyspan, and Prolific
• USB HID devices, such as keyboard, mouse, presenter
• USB audio device
• USB Video Class Driver that supports USB video class devices such as webcams
• USB CDC devices
• USB TouchScreen Driver that supports touch screens and touch panels (ClearTek, ClearTek II with EX II controller of MicroTouch) from 3M
• USB Wacom Tablet that supports USB Wacom USB tablets

What are not supported yet:

• Some kinds of HID devices, such as the multi-media keys in the keyboard
• Java USB to provide a Java API (JSR80) for communicating with USB devices
• Some vendor specific devices
• Wireless USB

Goal

• Improve user experience
• Deliver new device drivers
• Improve USB framework
• Improve config tool
• Bug fix and new feature

Documents

• Design documents
• Whitepaper
• etc.

Source Code, Binary, and Package

• Source code on OpenSolaris.org
• binary or package