USB master capability for Neo1973 and new version

[Daniel Spies]

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 10:37:21 Harald Welte wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:17:06PM +0200, Delahaye, Philippe wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Thanks very much for the information about SDIO.
> >
> > I will be also interesting to get some information about USB. Is it
> > possible that the Neo1973 act as a USB master in which you could
> > connect USB slave devices?
> > Does the hardware support it?
>
> yes. Even GTA01 can do that.  GTA02 adds the +5V power supply for
> external devices
Does this mean with GTA02 there is no need of external power for the connected 
device any more? So we could use an USB data storage device without a powered 
USB hub?

Cheers,
Daniel

>
> > Has the software been tested for this feature?
>
> not entirely, but since it is working with GTA01, there is very little
> doubt of its functionality
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