The First USB 3.0 Driver comes to Linux

Now the Linux has become the first operating system to support USB 3.0. Sarah Sharp has developed such a code for the first USB 3.0 driver which will support to Linux. This news has been announced in Sarah Sharp’s blog itself on 7th June. Intel developer Sarah Sharp’s patch will be included in the 2.6.31 kernel. The driver will support Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) for USB 3.0 driver.

So Linux is going to take the tag ” First Operating System to support USB 3.0 “. The basic property of the USB 3.0 is that it has transfer rate of 5.0Gbps. USB 3.0 extends the bulk transfer type in SuperSpeed with Streams. This extension allows a host and device to create and transfer multiple streams of data through a single bulk pipe.

This standard has been already announced in November-08 by the USB Implementers Forum but recently recognized the host controller as USB 3.0 by NEC. So wait for the forthcoming version of Linux and get start to experience USB 3.0.

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