Even before the availability if a USB 3.0 hardware device, it seems that support has been built into the Linux kernal, and will debut with the release of v2.6.31. On june 7, Intel's Sarah Sharp, the chief author of the driver , announced in her blog " The xCHI(USB 3.0) host controler driver and initial support for USB 3.0 devices is now publicly available on my kernal.org git tree.
Greg K-H has queued the patches for 2.6.31,so Linux users should have official USB 3.0 support around September 2009. This is impeccable timing, since NEC recently announced thet will be prodcuing 1 million xHCI PCI express add-in cards in September." She also added that she is working with Keve Gabbert to make sure that the Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat pick up the xHCI driver. Advanced users can always compile their own kernal on a standard distro install.
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