Hi All,

Kalamatee has been working around the clock for the past few week implementing USB3 support in Poseidon stack. You can read more here( https://arosworld...post_10287 ).
When the work is completed it will open up many of the post-2015 computers to be used by native AROS!

At this point I prepared an experimental ISO of Kalamatee's work, strickly for the purpose on testing and reporing current status.

https://build.axrt.org/download/builds/Experimental/exp-usb3-pc-x86_64-20251210-063846.tar.gz

What has been tested:

- USB3 in VMware - you can use your pendrive to read/write data. Note: once the pendrive is inserted, there can be a 20-120 seconds "stall" when AROS is slow to respond
- USB3 in VirtualBox/QEMU - at this moment the pendrives are partially detected in Trident but cannot be used yet

When testing, you can confirm that your USB3 hardware has been at least detected by goint to Prefs/Trident and listing devices (see attached screenshot)

Hi,

Thanks, native AMD hardware. No devices detected even leaving plugged in for several minutes.

thank you

@Jeff1138

Thanks for testing. Hopefully next versions will improve hardware support with different chipsets.

Kalamatee just got a bunch of new hardware delivered to him so he can continue work on xHCI work however I would not expect much the rest of the year.

Hi,

Thanks, I am just grateful someone has started USB3 driver.

Really good news, Ive two systems that would be really good for AROS if just USB coud be made to work; looking forwards to trying this and the other recent developments over the Christmas break

Cheers,
Nigel.

I don't have a computer with USB 3 it's true I saw one on ebay it's a laptop but I'm not so sure about buying it

Hi,

Laptops are tricky things to get right, just make sure there is no Admin or Supervisor Password set to lock the bios as you will probably need to access to the bios to remove the frequently set Secure Boot.

@Jeff1138, ntromans

There is a request from Kalamatee to provide some more information. After booting and inserting pendrive, please go to Prefs/Trident and export log by clicking "Save to disk". Please upload this log somewhere and share it (please don't use attachements here on the forums as attachements are not visible to not logged in people).

Hi,

01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: Welcome to $VER: poseidon.library 5.0 (10.12.2025) Copyright 2002-2009 Chris Hodges, 2009-2025 The AROS Dev Team (0000000020090807)!
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: This is the AROS port.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: Event broadcaster started.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: Say hello to hubss.class V4.3 (Root/external superspeed hub base class).
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: Whoah! hub.class V4.3 surprised as Root/external hub base class.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: The door bell rang for massstorage.class V4.5 (Supports storage devices via usbscsi.device).
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: New hardware pciusb.device/0 added (PCI XHCI USB 3.x Host Controller).
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: Root hub has been enumerated.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: New hardware pciusb.device/1 added (PCI XHCI USB 3.x Host Controller).
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: Root hub has been enumerated.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 20-poseidon.library: Opening pciusb.device unit 2 failed device/unit failed to open (-1).
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-hubss.class: Hub with 8 ports successfully configured.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-hubss.class: I'm in love with superspeed hub 'PCI Superspeed Root Hub Unit 0'.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-hubss.class: Hub with 3 ports successfully configured.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-hubss.class: I'm in love with superspeed hub 'PCI Superspeed Root Hub Unit 1'.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-Poseidon Early ROM Init: Boot delay skipped, no mass storage devices found.
01/01/78 0:00 am| 0-poseidon.library: Welcome hid.class V4.5 (Generic support for human interface devices) to the party.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Don't laugh at asixeth.class V4.3 for Ethernet SANA driver for ASIX chipsets via usbasixeth.device.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Time has come for bluetooth.class V4.3 (Bluetooth HCI via usbbluetooth.device) to join the show.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Start blaming bootkeyboard.class V4.5 for helping at Support for keyboards in boot protocol mode.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Ain't bootmouse.class V4.4 useful for Support for mice/tablets in boot protocol mode?
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Say hello to camdusbmidi.class V4.5 (USB MIDI CAMD Interface class).
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Whoah! cdcacm.class V4.3 surprised as USB modems and OBEX via usbmodem.device.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: The door bell rang for dfu.class V4.3 (Firmware Upgrading/Downloading).
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Welcome dm9601eth.class V4.3 (Ethernet SANA driver for Davicom chipsets via dm9601eth.device) to the party.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Don't laugh at egalaxtouch.class V4.3 for Support for eGalax Touchscreens.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Time has come for ethwrap.class V4.4 (Ethernet SANA wrapper for simple devices via usbethwrap.device) to join the show.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Start blaming felsunxi.class V0.1 for helping at Support for Allwinner FEL mode.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Ain't moschipeth.class V4.3 useful for Ethernet SANA driver for MosChip MCS7830 chipset via usbmoschipeth.device?
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Say hello to palmpda.class V4.3 (Palm PDA HotSync via usbpalm.device).
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Whoah! pegasus.class V4.3 surprised as Ethernet SANA driver for Pegasus chipsets via usbpegasus.device.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: The door bell rang for printer.class V4.3 (Bidirectional printer driver via usbparallel.device).
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Welcome ptp.class V4.3 (Support for DigiCams and MTP via PictureTransferProtocol (PTP)) to the party.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Don't laugh at rawwrap.class V4.3 for Simple USB bulk IO wrapper via usbraw.device.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Time has come for rndis.class V1.2 (Ethernet SANA wrapper for RNDIS devices via usbrndis.device) to join the show.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Start blaming serialcp210x.class V4.3 for helping at CP210x serial adapter via serialcp210x.device.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Ain't serialpl2303.class V4.3 useful for PL2303 serial adapter via serialpl2303.device?
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Say hello to simplemidi.class V4.3 (Simple MIDI-IN Stream class mapping to keyboard).
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: Whoah! stir4200.class V4.3 surprised as IrDA Bridge for STIr4200 chipsets via usbstir4200.device.
9:01 am| 0-poseidon.library: The door bell rang for usbaudio.class V4.3 (USB Audio Streaming Interface class).
9:02 am| 5-poseidon.library: Failed to find config file 'ENV:Sys/poseidon.prefs'!
9:02 am| 5-poseidon.library: Failed to find config file 'ENVARC:Sys/poseidon.prefs'!
9:02 am| 0-poseidon.library: PoPo kicks ass.
9:02 am| 5-poseidon.library: Failed to find config file 'ENV:Sys/poseidon.prefs'!
9:02 am| 5-poseidon.library: Failed to find config file 'ENVARC:Sys/poseidon.prefs'!
9:02 am| 5-Trident: Forcing a DirScan for (new) classes, as you probably updated to a newer version.

Thanks! Interesting enought there are no errors in your log. There might be a debug-enabled version at some point to better trace the specific issues.

Hi,

Yes, after the above, I rebooted and left a usb stick (Aros one x64 1.2) whilst in the final part of booting and the log was the same.

Ho Ho Ho,

A new ISO is now available for testing.

Kalamatee is making steady progress! Right now an USB pendrive is getting detected in VirtualBox and added to devices (the partitition is not yet mounted). The support should also improve under VMWare. Please test how it works on your hardware

https://build.axrt.org/download/builds/Experimental/exp-usb3-pc-x86_64-20251225-053258.tar.gz

Now, on this Christmas day, I have a big favor to ask for.

I've been following Kalamatee's work on USB3 over the last few weeks and I can tell you there is an insane about of work needed to get this working and this work needs proper recognition. Please consider donating to Kalamatee via PayPal: kalamatee@gmail.com so that Kalamatee also has a Merry Christmas!

I noticed a significant improvement on VMWare. The lag that was present in the previous build is gone. Great job, Kalamatee!

Hi,

Thanks, just tried native AMD hardware but still no other devices than usb3 hubs.

Happy holidays everyone and have done a small donation.

Thanks for testing and for donating

Hi All,

Anynother batch of improvements from Kalamatee:

https://build.axrt.org/download/builds/Experimental/exp-usb3-pc-x86_64-20260104-095234.tar.gz

USB pendrive is now correctly attached/removed in VirtualBox and it's partition is mounted and displayed on Wanderer.

Note: it's possible that this build has some regression in USB2 chipset handling. If you notice that, please report as well.

In addition to USB2, there are other improvements to test and perhaps include in the distribution. Thank you.

No, these builds are only focusing on USB3 testing and no parts of them should be included in distributions. They are even more experimental/unstable/testonly than regular nightly builds.