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