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With Apple's push to the App Store for Mac OS X applications, and the fact that you are not allowed to install drivers in the OS to be in the Store we are left with a hardware quandary.
Investigating USB chips for a piece of hardware we found a good chip and then discovered that it had it's own USB driver and that driver only was supported 10.5.8 (ppc/i386).
Is there a good reference for USB chips that are natively supported by the OS so that going forwards we wouldn't have to supply a driver as it would already be built in?
I'd hate to think that as I go shopping for USB chips the first thing I have to do is extract driver support for each one. It'd seem to make sense that there be a list already of approved chips.
Edit: For clarifiction. I am building a USB thingee to use with the Mac and am shopping for USB chips for the circuits. I need to know that when I hook my USB device to the Mac that I'm not going to be in Driver hell or installer hell blocking me from the App Store.
Andrei Freeman
Posted 2012-03-16T14:56:08.687
Reputation: 111
2Do not cross post like that, Stack Overflow will migrate it for you next time – Simon Sheehan – 2012-03-16T14:58:32.230
@SimonSheehan Thank you, I was unaware of that. – Andrei Freeman – 2012-03-16T15:03:58.270
1It's not your fault, it's just others failing to explain to you what should be done in such a situation. – slhck – 2012-03-16T15:04:58.647
@slhck Ok, noted. I don't know there is auto migrated feature. Sorry. – Jasonw – 2012-03-16T15:08:31.500
I suggest finding a website that has taken apart say a Macbook Pro or do it yourself all that information should be on the chip. I don't understand the connection to the OS X Application Store and USB Controller Chip.... – Ramhound – 2012-03-16T15:24:55.833
Can you find something which pretends to be a generic device? Maybe a HID or a serial? – pjc50 – 2012-03-16T15:55:50.753