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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS .\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR .\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF .\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS .\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN .\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .Dd October 23, 2004 .Dt USB 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm usb .Nd Universal Serial Bus driver .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "ehci* at cardbus? dev ? function ?" .Cd "ehci* at pci? dev ? function ?" .Cd "ohci* at cardbus? dev ? function ?" .Cd "ohci* at pci? dev ? function ?" .Cd "slhci* at isa? port ? irq ?" .Cd "uhci* at pci? dev ? function ?" .Cd "usb* at ehci? flags X" .Cd "usb* at ohci? flags X" .Cd "usb* at uhci? flags X" .Cd "usb* at slhci? flags X" .Cd "uhub* at usb?" .Cd "uhub* at uhub? port ? configuration ? interface ? vendor ? product ? release ?" .Cd "XX* at uhub? port ? configuration ? interface ? vendor ? product ? release ?" .Pp .Cd options USBVERBOSE .Pp .In dev/usb/usb.h .In dev/usb/usbhid.h .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nx provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for .Tn USB devices. .Pp The .Nx .Nm driver has three layers (like .Xr scsi 4 and .Xr pcmcia 4 ) : the controller, the bus, and the device layer. The controller attaches to a physical bus (like .Xr pci 4 ) . The .Tn USB bus attaches to the controller and the root hub attaches to the bus. Further devices, which may include further hubs, attach to other hubs. The attachment forms the same tree structure as the physical .Tn USB device tree. For each .Tn USB device there may be additional drivers attached to it. .Pp The .Cm uhub device controls .Tn USB hubs and must always be present since there is at least a root hub in any .Tn USB system. .Pp The .Va flags argument to the .Va usb device affects the order in which the device detection happens during cold boot. Normally, only the USB host controller and the .Va usb device are detected during the autoconfiguration when the machine is booted. The rest of the devices are detected once the system becomes functional and the kernel thread for the .Va usb device is started. Sometimes it is desirable to have a device detected early in the boot process, e.g., the console keyboard. To achieve this use a .Va flags value of 1. .Sh SUPPORTED DEVICES .Nx includes machine-independent .Tn USB drivers, sorted by driver name: .Bl -tag -width usscanner -offset indent .It aue driver for ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet. .It axe driver for ASIX AX88172 USB Ethernet. .It cdce driver Communication Data Class, Ethernet Networking Control Model devices .It cue driver for CATC USB-EL1201A USB Ethernet. .It kue driver for Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B USB Ethernet. .It uaudio driver for audio devices. .It ubsa driver for Belkin serial adapters. .It udsbr driver for D-Link DSB-R100 USB radio. .It uftdi driver for FTDI based serial adapters. .It ugen generic driver for .Tn USB devices. .It uhid generic driver for Human Interface Devices. .It uhidev top level HID driver. .It uirda driver for USB-IrDA bridges. .It ukbd keyboard driver. .It ulpt printer driver. .It umass driver for mass storage devices, such as disks. .It umct driver for MCT USB RS-232 serial adapter. .It umidi driver for MIDI devices. .It umodem driver for communication devices that use the Abstract Control Model. .It ums mouse driver. .It upl driver for .Tn Prolific host-to-host adapter. .It uplcom driver for Prolific 2303 serial adapter. .It urio driver for the .Tn Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player. .It url driver for Realtek RTL8150L USB Ethernet. .It uscanner driver for some USB scanners. .It usscanner driver for some SCSI-over-USB scanners. .It ustir driver for SigmaTel STIr4200 USB-IrDA bridges. .It uvisor Handspring Visor driver. .It uvscom driver for SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U serial adapter. .El .Sh INTRODUCTION TO USB The .Tn USB 1.x is a 12 Mb/s serial bus with 1.5 Mb/s for low speed devices. .Tn USB 2.x handles 480 Mb/s. Each .Tn USB has a host controller that is the master of the bus; all other devices on the bus only speak when spoken to. .Pp There can be up to 127 devices (apart from the host controller) on a bus, each with its own address. The addresses are assigned dynamically by the host when each device is attached to the bus. .Pp Within each device there can be up to 16 endpoints. Each endpoint is individually addressed and the addresses are static. Each of these endpoints will communicate in one of four different modes: control, isochronous, bulk, or interrupt. A device always has at least one endpoint. This endpoint has address 0 and is a control endpoint and is used to give commands to and extract basic data, such as descriptors, from the device. Each endpoint, except the control endpoint, is unidirectional. .Pp The endpoints in a device are grouped into interfaces. An interface is a logical unit within a device; e.g., a compound device with both a keyboard and a trackball would present one interface for each. An interface can sometimes be set into different modes, called alternate settings, which affects how it operates. Different alternate settings can have different endpoints within it. .Pp A device may operate in different configurations. Depending on the configuration the device may present different sets of endpoints and interfaces. .Pp Each device located on a hub has several .Xr config 8 locators: .Bl -tag -compact -width xxxxxxxxx .It Cd port this is the number of the port on closest upstream hub. .It Cd configuration this is the configuration the device must be in for this driver to attach. This locator does not set the configuration; it is iterated by the bus enumeration. .It Cd interface this is the interface number within a device that an interface driver attaches to. .It Cd vendor this is the 16 bit vendor id of the device. .It Cd product this is the 16 bit product id of the device. .It Cd release this is the 16 bit release (revision) number of the device. .El The first locator can be used to pin down a particular device according to its physical position in the device tree. The last three locators can be used to pin down a particular device according to what device it actually is. .Pp The bus enumeration of the .Tn USB bus proceeds in several steps: .Bl -enum .It Any device specific driver can to attach to the device. .It If none is found, any device class specific driver can attach. .It If none is found, all configurations are iterated over. For each configuration all the interface are iterated over and interface drivers can attach. If any interface driver attached in a certain configuration the iteration over configurations is stopped. .It If still no drivers have been found, the generic .Tn USB driver can attach. .El .Sh USB CONTROLLER INTERFACE Use the following to get access to the .Tn USB specific structures and defines. .Bd -literal #include \*[Lt]dev/usb/usb.h\*[Gt] .Ed .Pp The .Pa /dev/usbN can be opened and a few operations can be performed on it. The .Xr poll 2 system call will say that I/O is possible on the controller device when a .Tn USB device has been connected or disconnected to the bus. .Pp The following .Xr ioctl 2 commands are supported on the controller device: .Bl -tag -width xxxxxx .\" .It Dv USB_DISCOVER .\" This command will cause a complete bus discovery to be initiated. .\" If any devices attached or detached from the bus they will be .\" processed during this command. .\" This is the only way that new devices are found on the bus. .It Dv USB_DEVICEINFO Fa "struct usb_device_info" This command can be used to retrieve some information about a device on the bus. The .Va addr field should be filled before the call and the other fields will be filled by information about the device on that address. Should no such device exist an error is reported. .Bd -literal struct usb_device_info { u_int8_t udi_bus; u_int8_t udi_addr; usb_event_cookie_t udi_cookie; char udi_product[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN]; char udi_vendor[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN]; char udi_release[8]; u_int16_t udi_productNo; u_int16_t udi_vendorNo; u_int16_t udi_releaseNo; u_int8_t udi_class; u_int8_t udi_subclass; u_int8_t udi_protocol; u_int8_t udi_config; u_int8_t udi_speed; #define USB_SPEED_LOW 1 #define USB_SPEED_FULL 2 #define USB_SPEED_HIGH 3 int udi_power; int udi_nports; char udi_devnames[USB_MAX_DEVNAMES][USB_MAX_DEVNAMELEN]; u_int8_t udi_ports[16]; #define USB_PORT_ENABLED 0xff #define USB_PORT_SUSPENDED 0xfe #define USB_PORT_POWERED 0xfd #define USB_PORT_DISABLED 0xfc }; .Ed .Pp The .Va product , .Va vendor , and .Va release fields contain self-explanatory descriptions of the device. .Pp The .Va class field contains the device class. .Pp The .Va config field shows the current configuration of the device. .Pp The .Va lowspeed field is set if the device is a .Tn USB low speed device. .Pp The .Va power field shows the power consumption in milli-amps drawn at 5 volts, or zero if the device is self powered. .Pp If the device is a hub the .Va nports field is non-zero and the .Va ports field contains the addresses of the connected devices. If no device is connected to a port one of the .Va USB_PORT_* values indicates its status. .It Dv USB_DEVICESTATS Fa "struct usb_device_stats" This command retrieves statistics about the controller. .Bd -literal struct usb_device_stats { u_long uds_requests[4]; }; .Ed .Pp The .Va requests field is indexed by the transfer kind, i.e. .Va UE_* , and indicates how many transfers of each kind that has been completed by the controller. .It Dv USB_REQUEST Fa "struct usb_ctl_request" This command can be used to execute arbitrary requests on the control pipe. This is .Em DANGEROUS and should be used with great care since it can destroy the bus integrity. .El .Pp The include file .Aq Pa dev/usb/usb.h contains definitions for the types used by the various .Xr ioctl 2 calls. The naming convention of the fields for the various .Tn USB descriptors exactly follows the naming in the .Tn USB specification. Byte sized fields can be accessed directly, but word (16 bit) sized fields must be access by the .Fn UGETW field and .Fn USETW field value macros to handle byte order and alignment properly. .Pp The include file .Aq Pa dev/usb/usbhid.h similarly contains the definitions for Human Interface Devices .Pq Tn HID . .Sh USB EVENT INTERFACE All .Tn USB events are reported via the .Pa /dev/usb device. This devices can be opened for reading and each .Xr read 2 will yield an event record (if something has happened). The .Xr poll 2 system call can be used to determine if an event record is available for reading. .Pp The event record has the following definition: .Bd -literal struct usb_event { int ue_type; #define USB_EVENT_CTRLR_ATTACH 1 #define USB_EVENT_CTRLR_DETACH 2 #define USB_EVENT_DEVICE_ATTACH 3 #define USB_EVENT_DEVICE_DETACH 4 #define USB_EVENT_DRIVER_ATTACH 5 #define USB_EVENT_DRIVER_DETACH 6 struct timespec ue_time; union { struct { int ue_bus; } ue_ctrlr; struct usb_device_info ue_device; struct { usb_event_cookie_t ue_cookie; char ue_devname[16]; } ue_driver; } u; }; .Ed The .Va ue_type field identifies the type of event that is described. The possible events are attach/detach of a host controller, a device, or a device driver. The union contains information pertinent to the different types of events. .br The .Va ue_bus contains the number of the .Tn USB bus for host controller events. .br The .Va ue_device record contains information about the device in a device event event. .br The .Va ue_cookie is an opaque value that uniquely determines which device a device driver has been attached to (i.e., it equals the cookie value in the device that the driver attached to). The .Va ue_devname contains the name of the device (driver) as seen in, e.g., kernel messages. .Pp Note that there is a separation between device and device driver events. A device event is generated when a physical USB device is attached or detached. A single USB device may have zero, one, or many device drivers associated with it. .Sh KERNEL THREADS For each USB bus, i.e., for each host controller, there is a kernel thread that handles attach and detach of devices on that bus. The thread is named .Va usbN where .Va N is the bus number. .Pp In addition there is a kernel thread, .Va usbtask , which handles various minor tasks that are initiated from an interrupt context, but need to sleep, e.g., time-out abort of transfers. .Sh SEE ALSO The .Tn USB specifications can be found at: .D1 http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ .Pp .Xr aue 4 , .Xr axe 4 , .Xr cardbus 4 , .Xr cdce 4 , .Xr cue 4 , .Xr ehci 4 , .Xr isa 4 , .Xr kue 4 , .Xr ohci 4 , .Xr pci 4 , .Xr slhci 4 , .Xr uaudio 4 , .Xr ubsa 4 , .Xr ucom 4 , .Xr udsbr 4 , .Xr uep 4 , .Xr ugen 4 , .Xr uhci 4 , .Xr uhid 4 , .Xr uhidev 4 , .Xr uirda 4 , .Xr ukbd 4 , .Xr ulpt 4 , .Xr umass 4 , .Xr umct 4 , .Xr umidi 4 , .Xr ums 4 , .Xr upl 4 , .Xr urio 4 , .Xr url 4 , .Xr uscanner 4 , .Xr usscanner 4 , .Xr ustir 4 , .Xr uvisor 4 , .Xr usbdevs 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver appeared in .Nx 1.4 . .Sh BUGS There should be a serial number locator, but .Nx does not have string valued locators.