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Linux 6.12 Brings 9p Network USB Gadget Driver To Ease Embedded Device Development
The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window along with the other areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman
Michael Grzeschik with Pengutronix explained in the 9pfs transport USB gadget driver patch series: One of the intended use-cases for this is to serve as an alternative to a Network File-System (NFS) root booting during the development of embedded Linux devices. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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