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No, the controller used to be part of the motherboard chipset in a way that allowed DMA access to GPIO registers (so the CPU didn’t need to actively bit bang the port, drivers could just fill a buffer and offload it to the hardware) and interrupts that had priority over all other processes.

USB simply doesn’t work like that.




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