Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > You essentially have to educate yourself on silicon level (ie. what
> > hardware IP is being used in which consumer products) to sustain a
> > dependency on 127 possible devices per bus.
> >
> > I guess you'll find that there are only very few xHCI IPs out there,
> > probably just three or four. I wouldn't be surprised if they all have
> > the same, or similar, limitations.
> 
> Is there anything I can do at the system level to avoid disabling xHCI at
> the BIOS level?

Unfortunately not. The number of supported devices is now very much
hardwired in the host controller hardware. Each connected device
requires its own set of registers in xHCI, so when there is a limit
it is a hard limit.


//Peter
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