Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Credits for the Simple Linux USB Driver: |
| 2 | |
| 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. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Georg Acher <acher@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> |
| 8 | David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> |
| 9 | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
| 10 | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@intel.com> |
| 11 | Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com> |
| 12 | Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de> |
| 13 | ham <ham@unsuave.com> |
| 14 | Bradley M Keryan <keryan@andrew.cmu.edu> |
| 15 | Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> |
| 16 | Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> |
| 17 | Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au> |
| 18 | Petko Manlolov <petkan@dce.bg> |
| 19 | David E. Nelson <dnelson@jump.net> |
| 20 | Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> |
| 21 | Bill Ryder <bryder@sgi.com> |
| 22 | Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch> |
| 23 | Gregory P. Smith <greg@electricrain.com> |
| 24 | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |
| 25 | Roman Weissgaerber <weissg@vienna.at> |
| 26 | <Kazuki.Yasumatsu@fujixerox.co.jp> |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Special thanks to: |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Inaky Perez Gonzalez <inaky@peloncho.fis.ucm.es> for starting the |
| 31 | Linux USB driver effort and writing much of the larger uusbd driver. |
| 32 | Much has been learned from that effort. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | The NetBSD & FreeBSD USB developers. For being on the Linux USB list |
| 35 | and offering suggestions and sharing implementation experiences. |
| 36 | |
| 37 | Additional thanks to the following companies and people for donations |
| 38 | of hardware, support, time and development (this is from the original |
| 39 | THANKS file in Inaky's driver): |
| 40 | |
| 41 | The following corporations have helped us in the development |
| 42 | of Linux USB / UUSBD: |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - 3Com GmbH for donating a ISDN Pro TA and supporting me |
| 45 | in technical questions and with test equipment. I'd never |
| 46 | expect such a great help. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | - USAR Systems provided us with one of their excellent USB |
| 49 | Evaluation Kits. It allows us to test the Linux-USB driver |
| 50 | for compliance with the latest USB specification. USAR |
| 51 | Systems recognized the importance of an up-to-date open |
| 52 | Operating System and supports this project with |
| 53 | Hardware. Thanks!. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | - Thanks to Intel Corporation for their precious help. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | - We teamed up with Cherry to make Linux the first OS with |
| 58 | built-in USB support. Cherry is one of the biggest keyboard |
| 59 | makers in the world. |
| 60 | |
| 61 | - CMD Technology, Inc. sponsored us kindly donating a CSA-6700 |
| 62 | PCI-to-USB Controller Board to test the OHCI implementation. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | - Due to their support to us, Keytronic can be sure that they |
| 65 | will sell keyboards to some of the 3 million (at least) |
| 66 | Linux users. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | - Many thanks to ing büro h doran [http://www.ibhdoran.com]! |
| 69 | It was almost impossible to get a PC backplate USB connector |
| 70 | for the motherboard here at Europe (mine, home-made, was |
| 71 | quite lousy :). Now I know where to acquire nice USB stuff! |
| 72 | |
| 73 | - Genius Germany donated a USB mouse to test the mouse boot |
| 74 | protocol. They've also donated a F-23 digital joystick and a |
| 75 | NetMouse Pro. Thanks! |
| 76 | |
| 77 | - AVM GmbH Berlin is supporting the development of the Linux |
| 78 | USB driver for the AVM ISDN Controller B1 USB. AVM is a |
| 79 | leading manufacturer for active and passive ISDN Controllers |
| 80 | and CAPI 2.0-based software. The active design of the AVM B1 |
| 81 | is open for all OS platforms, including Linux. |
| 82 | |
| 83 | - Thanks to Y-E Data, Inc. for donating their FlashBuster-U |
| 84 | USB Floppy Disk Drive, so we could test the bulk transfer |
| 85 | code. |
| 86 | |
| 87 | - Many thanks to Logitech for contributing a three axis USB |
| 88 | mouse. |
| 89 | |
| 90 | Logitech designs, manufactures and markets |
| 91 | Human Interface Devices, having a long history and |
| 92 | experience in making devices such as keyboards, mice, |
| 93 | trackballs, cameras, loudspeakers and control devices for |
| 94 | gaming and professional use. |
| 95 | |
| 96 | Being a recognized vendor and seller for all these devices, |
| 97 | they have donated USB mice, a joystick and a scanner, as a |
| 98 | way to acknowledge the importance of Linux and to allow |
| 99 | Logitech customers to enjoy support in their favorite |
| 100 | operating systems and all Linux users to use Logitech and |
| 101 | other USB hardware. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | Logitech is official sponsor of the Linux Conference on |
| 104 | Feb. 11th 1999 in Vienna, where we'll will present the |
| 105 | current state of the Linux USB effort. |
| 106 | |
| 107 | - CATC has provided means to uncover dark corners of the UHCI |
| 108 | inner workings with a USB Inspector. |
| 109 | |
| 110 | - Thanks to Entrega for providing PCI to USB cards, hubs and |
| 111 | converter products for development. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | - Thanks to ConnectTech for providing a WhiteHEAT usb to |
| 114 | serial converter, and the documentation for the device to |
| 115 | allow a driver to be written. |
| 116 | |
| 117 | - Thanks to ADMtek for providing Pegasus and Pegasus II |
| 118 | evaluation boards, specs and valuable advices during |
| 119 | the driver development. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | And thanks go to (hey! in no particular order :) |
| 122 | |
| 123 | - Oren Tirosh <orenti@hishome.net>, for standing so patiently |
| 124 | all my doubts'bout USB and giving lots of cool ideas. |
| 125 | |
| 126 | - Jochen Karrer <karrer@wpfd25.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, for |
| 127 | pointing out mortal bugs and giving advice. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | - Edmund Humemberger <ed@atnet.at>, for it's great work on |
| 130 | public relationships and general management stuff for the |
| 131 | Linux-USB effort. |
| 132 | |
| 133 | - Alberto Menegazzi <flash@flash.iol.it> is starting the |
| 134 | documentation for the UUSBD. Go for it! |
| 135 | |
| 136 | - Ric Klaren <ia_ric@cs.utwente.nl> for doing nice |
| 137 | introductory documents (competing with Alberto's :). |
| 138 | |
| 139 | - Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>, for it's help on those |
| 140 | itchy bits ... :) |
| 141 | |
| 142 | - Paul MacKerras for polishing OHCI and pushing me harder for |
| 143 | the iMac support, giving improvements and enhancements. |
| 144 | |
| 145 | - Fernando Herrera <fherrera@eurielec.etsit.upm.es> has taken |
| 146 | charge of composing, maintaining and feeding the |
| 147 | long-awaited, unique and marvelous UUSBD FAQ! Tadaaaa!!! |
| 148 | |
| 149 | - Rasca Gmelch <thron@gmx.de> has revived the raw driver and |
| 150 | pointed bugs, as well as started the uusbd-utils package. |
| 151 | |
| 152 | - Peter Dettori <dettori@ozy.dec.com> is uncovering bugs like |
| 153 | crazy, as well as making cool suggestions, great :) |
| 154 | |
| 155 | - All the Free Software and Linux community, the FSF & the GNU |
| 156 | project, the MIT X consortium, the TeX people ... everyone! |
| 157 | You know who you are! |
| 158 | |
| 159 | - Big thanks to Richard Stallman for creating Emacs! |
| 160 | |
| 161 | - The people at the linux-usb mailing list, for reading so |
| 162 | many messages :) Ok, no more kidding; for all your advises! |
| 163 | |
| 164 | - All the people at the USB Implementors Forum for their |
| 165 | help and assistance. |
| 166 | |
| 167 | - Nathan Myers <ncm@cantrip.org>, for his advice! (hope you |
| 168 | liked Cibeles' party). |
| 169 | |
| 170 | - Linus Torvalds, for starting, developing and managing Linux. |
| 171 | |
| 172 | - Mike Smith, Craig Keithley, Thierry Giron and Janet Schank |
| 173 | for convincing me USB Standard hubs are not that standard |
| 174 | and that's good to allow for vendor specific quirks on the |
| 175 | standard hub driver. |