Re:USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps
by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 02, 2022 @04:50PM
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The charging situation isn't their fault. USB wasn't designed for it. Non-compliant devices started allowing charging before it was ever permitted. Then they added PD but nobody supported it and manufacturers cooked up their own ad hoc systems to detect a charger.
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Re:USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps
by throwawaylinux on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:10PM
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> The charging situation isn't their fault. USB wasn't designed for it. Non-compliant devices started allowing charging before it was ever permitted.
A standards body at least shares some fault when they move so slowly that real solutions have to work ahead of them to provide a demanded feature and things end up in a mess like this.
I don't know what you're talking about, everybody uses PD these days.
Re:USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps
by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:54PM
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PD predates USB 3. Nobody supported it until it became integrated into modern USB controllers. Prior to that there were janky manufacturer specific resistor combinations used to signal the presence of a charger.