Poseidon USB Stack as Open Source?

Chris Hodges has offered to release the Poseidon USB stack to the AROS community under the APL license. This could could be beneficial for classic and os4 users as well.

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@orgin

Using PCI USB2 cards and having isochronous transfers would be nice...

Could it be usefull to os4 ??

original link is long gone. didn't he give it to AROS in the end or something?

@NinjaCyborg
https://github.com/aros-development-team/AROS/tree/master/rom/usb

MorphOs are using it , they are claiming it as their usb stack of choice on their latest update 3.19. i dont know if they are bundleing it as open source within their OS

@Crumb

isochronous transfers is supported in OS4.1 usb stack.
don't remember if its in beta or released.

@orgin

I think most USB problems it’s not related to the USB stack,
XE/XE/Micro lacked pull up/down resistors on some of the signal lines.

some of the computers, have problems with underpowered USB ports.

I think benefit might be legacy software, iomega had some USB software I remember,
and maybe, I don’t know about gamepad support, but Amiga Input, has a flawed design.

@Swisso

AFAIR Poseidon was already the MorphOS USB stack before it was open sourced for AROS, so their licence is different.

Even if someone would port Poseidon to AmigaOS 4.x: What's the point of having an alternative, but unusable USB stack?

Of course the Sirion USB hardware drivers of AmigaOS 4.x can't be used with Poseidon, nor the other way round, and all of them would have to be reimplemented from scratch for Poseidon, additionally to porting Poseidon itself, to be able to use it on AmigaOne SE/XE/µA1, Sam4x0, X1000, X5000, A1222+, ... systems.

Maybe there are some AmigaOS 3.x/m68k Poseidon hardware drivers which do work emulated on AmigaOS 4.x on classic Amigas, but for all other systems an AmigaOS 4.x port of Poseidon would be completely useless.

@joerg did anyone suggest that?