First Linux USB 3.0 Drivers Emerge

Just a few weeks after NEC presented its first host controller chip for USB 3.0 and Fresco Logic released its USB 3.0 expansion card, and even before the first products offer the new SuperSpeed mode, a Linux driver for the xHCI (Extensible Host Controller Interface) is waiting in the wings. Intel developer Sarah Sharp writes in her blog that the patch is on the list of those due for inclusion in the 2.6.31 kernel…