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Old 01-26-2016, 06:57 AM   #2255
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
If it's true, though, that Skylake motherboards have a different method of talking to USB devices, wouldn't that mean that older distributions of any o/s couldn't talk to USB devices on such a motherboard? That would mean no keyboard, no mouse, etc. Kind of hard to upgrade anything if you can't communicate with the o/s.
True, but your distribution has to be very old.

Wikipedia says:
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xHCI controllers have been shipping since December 2009. Linux drivers are available online.
So, for the last 5-6 years, EHCI and XHCI have existed side by side in at least some mainboards, and now the Skylake chipset is officially dropping EHCI.

I assume the Linux kernel has already integrated XHCI support a long time ago.
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