[LinuxBIOS] Enabling USB 2.0

Jonathan Sturges jsturges at speakeasy.net
Fri Sep 1 17:23:10 CEST 2006



Anil B G wrote:

> Hi,
>   I am trying to enable USB on a board similar to Tyan s2892 (CK804) 
> chipset?
> Is there anything that else that needs to be done separately other 
> than setting the irqs et al correctly? Specifically do we need to 
> write some sort of a driver to enable the USB host controller.
>  
> Thanks
> Anil


Assuming you don't hope to boot from USB, all you really should need is 
to setup the IRQ map, AFAIK.  Then the Linux kernel will detect it and 
be able to attach the appropriate driver.

-Jonathan




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