1 Credits for the Simple Linux USB Driver:
3 The following people have contributed to this code (in alphabetical
4 order by last name). I'm sure this list should be longer, its
5 difficult to maintain, add yourself with a patch if desired.
7 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
8 Johannes Erdfelt <jerdfelt@sventech.com>
10 Bradley M Keryan <keryan@andrew.cmu.edu>
11 Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
12 David E. Nelson <dnelson@jump.net>
13 Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@twilight.ucw.cz>
14 Gregory P. Smith <greg@electricrain.com>
15 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
16 Roman Weissgaerber <weissg@vienna.at>
17 <Kazuki.Yasumatsu@fujixerox.co.jp>
21 Inaky Perez Gonzalez <inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es> for starting the
22 Linux USB driver effort and writing much of the larger uusbd driver.
23 Much has been learned from that effort.
25 The NetBSD & FreeBSD USB developers. For being on the Linux USB list
26 and offering suggestions and sharing implementation experiences.
28 Additional thanks to the following companies and people for donations
29 of hardware, support, time and development (this is from the original
30 THANKS file in Inaky's driver):
32 The following corporations have helped us in the development
35 - 3Com GmbH for donating a ISDN Pro TA and supporting me
36 in technical questions and with test equipment. I'd never
37 expect such a great help.
39 - USAR Systems provided us with one of their excellent USB
40 Evaluation Kits. It allows us to test the Linux-USB driver
41 for compilance with the latest USB specification. USAR
42 Systems recognized the importance of an up-to-date open
43 Operating System and supports this project with
46 - Thanks to Intel Corporation for their precious help.
48 - We teamed up with Cherry to make Linux the first OS with
49 built-in USB support. Cherry is one of the biggest keyboard
52 - CMD Technology, Inc. sponsored us kindly donating a CSA-6700
53 PCI-to-USB Controller Board to test the OHCI implementation.
55 - Due to their support to us, Keytronic can be sure that they
56 will sell keyboards to some of the 3 million (at least)
59 - Many thanks to ing büro h doran [http://www.ibhdoran.com]!
60 It was almost imposible to get a PC backplate USB connector
61 for the motherboard here at Europe (mine, home-made, was
62 quite lowsy :). Now I know where to adquire nice USB stuff!
64 - Genius Germany donated a USB mouse to test the mouse boot
65 protocol. They've also donated a F-23 digital joystick and a
68 - AVM GmbH Berlin is supporting the development of the Linux
69 USB driver for the AVM ISDN Controller B1 USB. AVM is a
70 leading manufacturer for active and passive ISDN Controllers
71 and CAPI 2.0-based software. The active design of the AVM B1
72 is open for all OS platforms, including Linux.
74 - Thanks to Y-E Data, Inc. for donating their FlashBuster-U
75 USB Floppy Disk Drive, so we could test the bulk transfer
78 - Many thanks to Logitech for contributing a three axis USB
81 Logitech designs, manufactures and markets
82 Human Interface Devices, having a long history and
83 experience in making devices such as keyboards, mice,
84 trackballs, cameras, loudspeakers and control devices for
85 gaming and professional use.
87 Being a recognized vendor and seller for all these devices,
88 they have donated USB mice, a joystick and a scanner, as a
89 way to acknowledge the importance of Linux and to allow
90 Logitech customers to enjoy support in their favorite
91 operating systems and all Linux users to use Logitech and
94 Logitech is official sponsor of the Linux Conference on
95 Feb. 11th 1999 in Vienna, where we'll will present the
96 current state of the Linux USB effort.
98 - CATC has provided means to uncover dark corners of the UHCI
99 inner workings with a USB Inspector.
101 - Thanks to Entrega for providing PCI to USB cards, hubs and
102 converter products for development.
105 And thanks go to (hey! in no particular order :)
107 - Oren Tirosh <orenti@hishome.net>, for standing so patiently
108 all my doubts'bout USB and giving lots of cool ideas.
110 - Jochen Karrer <karrer@wpfd25.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, for
111 pointing out mortal bugs and giving advice.
113 - Edmund Humemberger <ed@atnet.at>, for it's great work on
114 public relationships and general management stuff for the
117 - Alberto Menegazzi <flash@flash.iol.it> is starting the
118 documentation for the UUSBD. Go for it!
120 - Ric Klaren <ia_ric@cs.utwente.nl> for doing nice
121 introductory documents (compiting with Alberto's :).
123 - Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>, for it's help on those
126 - Paul MacKerras for polishing OHCI and pushing me harder for
127 the iMac support, giving improvements and enhancements.
129 - Fernando Herrera <fherrera@eurielec.etsit.upm.es> has taken
130 charge of composing, maintaining and feeding the
131 long-awaited, unique and marvelous UUSBD FAQ! Tadaaaa!!!
133 - Rasca Gmelch <thron@gmx.de> has revived the raw driver and
134 pointed bugs, as well as started the uusbd-utils package.
136 - Peter Dettori <dettori@ozy.dec.com> is unconvering bugs like
137 crazy, as well as making cool suggestions, great :)
139 - All the Free Software and Linux community, the FSF & the GNU
140 project, the MIT X consortium, the TeX people ... everyone!
141 You know who you are!
143 - Big thanks to Richard Stallman for creating Emacs!
145 - The people at the linux-usb mailing list, for reading so
146 many messages :) Ok, no more kidding; for all your advices!
148 - All the people at the USB Implementors Forum for their
151 - Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org>, for his advice! (hope you
152 liked Cibeles' party).
154 - Linus Torvalds, for starting, developing and managing Linux.
156 - Mike Smith, Craig Keithley, Thierry Giron and Janet Schank
157 for convincing me USB Standard hubs are not that standard
158 and that's good to allow for vendor specific quirks on the