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Special Forums Hardware Could USB ever take over PCI Post 302866277 by cjcox on Monday 21st of October 2013 04:29:06 PM
Old 10-21-2013
As others have said, apple vs. orange.

Both have their place. So while the argument has been on what PCIe can do vs USB, certainly USB has strengths for certain cases.

So.. the answer is "no", but iMHO, it's because one is an apple and the other is an orange.

If you think differently, go and get on of those high speed USB 3.0 docking solutions that do displaylink to handle multiple monitors over your USB 3.0... and when that fails (and eventually it will), you will have a better understanding for why this just doesn't work.
 

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usb_dev_qlf_descr(9S)					    Data Structures for Drivers 				     usb_dev_qlf_descr(9S)

NAME
usb_dev_qlf_descr - USB device qualifier descriptor SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/usb/usba.h> INTERFACE LEVEL
Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI) DESCRIPTION
The device qualifier descriptor usb_dev_qlf_descr_t defines how fields of a high speed device's device descriptor would look if that device is run at a different speed. If a high-speed device is running currently at full/high speed, fields of this descriptor reflect how device descriptor fields would look if speed was changed to high/full. Please refer to section 9.6.2 of the USB 2.0 specification. The USB 2.0 specification is available at www.usb.org. A device descriptor contains the following fields: uint8_t bLength Size of this descriptor. uint8_t bDescriptorType Set to USB_DESCR_TYPE_DEV_QLF. uint16_t bcdUSB USB specification release number in binary coded decimal. uint8_t bDeviceClass Device class code. (See usb_dev_descr(9s).) uint8_t bDeviceSubClass Device subclass code.(See USB 2.0 specification of applicable device class for information.) uint8_t bDeviceProtocol Protocol code.(See USB 2.0 specification of applicable device class for information.) uint8_t bMaxPacketSize0 Maximum packet size of endpoint 0. uint8_t bNumConfigurations Number of available configurations. uint8_t bReserved Reserved. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |PCI-based systems | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWusbu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5), usb_get_alt_if(9F), usb_get_cfg(9F), usb_get_dev_data(9F), usb_get_string_descr(9F). usb_parse_data(9F), usb_ctrl_request(9S), usb_cfg_descr(9S), usb_dev_descr(9S), usb_ep_descr(9S), usb_if_descr(9S), usb_other_speed_cfg_descr(9S), usb_string_descr(9S) SunOS 5.11 5 Jan 2004 usb_dev_qlf_descr(9S)
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