The USB port has become ubiquitous in the digital world, allowing the use of a large choice of peripherals. The Raspberry Pi models support one to four USB ports, depending upon the model.
This chapter briefly examines some power considerations associated with USB support and powered hubs. The remainder of this chapter examines the device driver interface available to the Raspbian Linux developer by programming access to an EZ-USB FX2LP developer board.
Power
Very early models of the Raspberry Pi limited each USB port to 100 mA because of the polyfuses on board. Revision 2.0 models and later did away ...
