From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261706AbUKTA1E (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:27:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262811AbUKTA0G (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:26:06 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36245 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261706AbUKTAXC (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:23:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:22:55 -0800 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com Subject: Re: Linux support for SiLabs CP2102 devices Message-ID: <20041119162255.607e9be2@lembas.zaitcev.lan> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12cvs126.2 (GTK+ 2.4.13; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:39:08 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > If people are looking for a good usb to serial chip that is supported on > Linux, Windows, and OS-X, there's the PL2303 device from Prolific, and > the FTDI-SIO chip, and the MCT-U232 chip. All of these work very well > on Linux, and are fully supported by all distros. I think they even > might be cheaper than the CP2102 device too :) The Magic Technology has ignored my requests to provide documentation for either Intel or Phillips based version of their kit. The mct_u232 was developed by reverse engineering the code, so it's probably not a good example. Why did you omit Keyspan? I thought they had reasonable policies, if we ignore debian-legal issue for the moment. -- Pete