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Ethernet is more mature, I like it. But to compete in most USB use-cases it would have to re-engineered so much, it wouldn't really be ethernet any more.
by labawi 6y ago
Ethernet is more mature, I like it. But to compete in most USB use-cases it would have to re-engineered so much, it wouldn't really be ethernet any more.
- MisterTea 6y agoYou don't think we need to change ethernet so much as to augment it with a co-processor that handles the "bus" aspect such as detecting when devices are plugged/unplugged and interrupt handling. Ethernet is just another serial port with higher level mechanisms which handles framing of the data. We just need a little more brains to handle the bus aspect and a simple protocol to talk to devices with as little overhead as possible.