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30.Dd May 30, 2012
31.Dt USB 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm usb
35.Nd Universal Serial Bus driver
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Cd "ehci*   at cardbus? function ?"
38.Cd "ehci*   at pci? dev ? function ?"
39.Cd "ohci*   at cardbus? function ?"
40.Cd "ohci*   at pci? dev ? function ?"
41.Cd "slhci*  at isa? port ? irq ?"
42.Cd "slhci*  at pcmcia? function ?"
43.Cd "uhci*   at cardbus? function ?"
44.Cd "uhci*   at pci? dev ? function ?"
45.Cd "usb*    at ehci? flags X"
46.Cd "usb*    at ohci? flags X"
47.Cd "usb*    at uhci? flags X"
48.Cd "usb*    at slhci? flags X"
49.Cd "uhub*   at usb?"
50.Cd "uhub*   at uhub? port ? configuration ? interface ? vendor ? product ? release ?"
51.Cd "XX*     at uhub? port ? configuration ? interface ? vendor ? product ? release ?"
52.Pp
53.Cd options USBVERBOSE
54.Pp
55.In dev/usb/usb.h
56.In dev/usb/usbhid.h
57.Sh DESCRIPTION
58.Nx
59provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for
60.Tn USB
61devices.
62.Pp
63The
64.Nx
65.Nm
66driver has three layers (like
67.Xr scsi 4
68and
69.Xr pcmcia 4 ) :
70the controller, the bus, and the device layer.
71The controller attaches to a physical bus (like
72.Xr pci 4 ) .
73The
74.Tn USB
75bus attaches to the controller and the root hub attaches
76to the bus.
77Further devices, which may include further hubs,
78attach to other hubs.
79The attachment forms the same tree structure as the physical
80.Tn USB
81device tree.
82For each
83.Tn USB
84device there may be additional drivers attached to it.
85.Pp
86The
87.Cm uhub
88device controls
89.Tn USB
90hubs and must always be present since there is at least a root hub in any
91.Tn USB
92system.
93.Pp
94The
95.Va flags
96argument to the
97.Va usb
98device affects the order in which the device detection happens
99during cold boot.
100Normally, only the USB host controller and the
101.Va usb
102device are detected during the autoconfiguration when the
103machine is booted.
104The rest of the devices are detected once
105the system becomes functional and the kernel thread for the
106.Va usb
107device is started.
108Sometimes it is desirable to have a device detected early in the
109boot process, e.g., the console keyboard.
110To achieve this use a
111.Va flags
112value of 1.
113.Pp
114.Nx
115supports the following machine-independent
116.Tn USB
117drivers:
118.Ss Storage devices
119.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
120.It Xr umass 4
121.Tn USB
122Mass Storage Devices, e.g., external disk drives
123.El
124.Ss Wired network interfaces
125.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
126.It Xr aue 4
127ADMtek AN986/ADM8511 Pegasus family 10/100 USB Ethernet device
128.It Xr axe 4
129ASIX Electronics AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device
130.It Xr cdce 4
131USB Communication Device Class Ethernet device
132.It Xr cue 4
133CATC USB-EL1201A USB Ethernet device
134.It Xr kue 4
135Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B USB Ethernet device
136.It Xr udav 4
137Davicom DM9601 10/100 USB Ethernet device
138.It Xr url 4
139Realtek RTL8150L 10/100 USB Ethernet device
140.El
141.Ss Wireless network interfaces
142.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
143.It Xr atu 4
144Atmel AT76C50x IEEE 802.11b wireless network device
145.It Xr ral 4
146Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
147.It Xr rum 4
148Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device
149.It Xr run 4
150Ralink Technology USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device
151.It Xr ubt 4
152USB Bluetooth dongles
153.It Xr upgt 4
154Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB 802.11b/g wireless network device
155.It Xr urtwn 4
156Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8192CU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless network device
157.It Xr zyd 4
158ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
159.El
160.Ss Serial and parallel interfaces
161.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
162.It Xr ubsa 4
163Belkin USB serial adapter
164.It Xr uchcom 4
165WinChipHead CH341/340 based USB serial adapter
166.It Xr ucom 4
167USB tty support
168.It Xr ucycom 4
169Cypress microcontroller based USB serial adapter
170.It Xr uftdi 4
171FT8U100AX USB serial adapter
172.It Xr ugensa 4
173USB generic serial adapter
174.It Xr uhmodem 4
175USB Huawei 3G wireless modem device
176.It Xr uipaq 4
177iPAQ USB units
178.It Xr ukyopon 4
179USB Kyocera AIR-EDGE PHONE device
180.It Xr ulpt 4
181USB printer support
182.It Xr umct 4
183MCT USB-RS232 USB serial adapter
184.It Xr umodem 4
185USB modem support
186.It Xr uplcom 4
187Prolific PL-2303 USB serial adapter
188.It Xr uslsa 4
189Silicon Laboratories CP2101/CP2102 based USB serial adapter
190.It Xr uvisor 4
191USB Handspring Visor
192.It Xr uvscom 4
193SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U USB serial adapter
194.El
195.Ss Audio devices
196.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
197.It Xr uaudio 4
198USB audio devices
199.It Xr umidi 4
200USB MIDI devices
201.It Xr urio 4
202Diamond Multimedia Rio MP3 players
203.El
204.Ss Radio receiver devices
205.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
206.It Xr udsbr 4
207D-Link DSB-R100 USB radio device
208.El
209.Ss Human Interface Devices
210.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
211.It Xr uhid 4
212Generic driver for Human Interface Devices
213.It Xr uhidev 4
214Base driver for all Human Interface Devices
215.It Xr ukbd 4
216.Tn USB
217keyboards that follow the boot protocol
218.It Xr ums 4
219.Tn USB
220mouse devices
221.El
222.Ss Miscellaneous devices
223.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
224.It Xr stuirda 4
225Sigmaltel 4116/4220 USB-IrDA bridge
226.It Xr udsir 4
227KingSun/DonShine USB IrDA bridge
228.It Xr uep 4
229USB eGalax touch-panel
230.It Xr ugen 4
231USB generic devices
232.It Xr uirda 4
233USB IrDA bridges
234.It Xr upl 4
235Prolific based host-to-host adapters
236.It Xr uscanner 4
237USB scanner support
238.It Xr usscanner 4
239SCSI-over-USB scanners
240.It Xr ustir 4
241SigmaTel STIr4200 USB IrDA bridges
242.It Xr utoppy 4
243Topfield TF5000PVR range of digital video recorders
244.It Xr uyap 4
245USB YAP phone firmware loader
246.El
247.Sh INTRODUCTION TO USB
248The
249.Tn USB
2501.x is a 12 Mb/s serial bus with 1.5 Mb/s for low speed devices.
251.Tn USB
2522.x handles 480 Mb/s.
253Each
254.Tn USB
255has a host controller that is the master of the bus;
256all other devices on the bus only speak when spoken to.
257.Pp
258There can be up to 127 devices (apart from the host controller)
259on a bus, each with its own address.
260The addresses are assigned
261dynamically by the host when each device is attached to the bus.
262.Pp
263Within each device there can be up to 16 endpoints.
264Each endpoint
265is individually addressed and the addresses are static.
266Each of these endpoints will communicate in one of four different modes:
267control, isochronous, bulk, or interrupt.
268A device always has at least one endpoint.
269This endpoint has address 0 and is a control
270endpoint and is used to give commands to and extract basic data,
271such as descriptors, from the device.
272Each endpoint, except the control endpoint, is unidirectional.
273.Pp
274The endpoints in a device are grouped into interfaces.
275An interface is a logical unit within a device; e.g.,
276a compound device with both a keyboard and a trackball would present
277one interface for each.
278An interface can sometimes be set into different modes,
279called alternate settings, which affects how it operates.
280Different alternate settings can have different endpoints
281within it.
282.Pp
283A device may operate in different configurations.
284Depending on the
285configuration the device may present different sets of endpoints
286and interfaces.
287.Pp
288Each device located on a hub has several
289.Xr config 1
290locators:
291.Bl -tag -compact -width xxxxxxxxx
292.It Cd port
293this is the number of the port on closest upstream hub.
294.It Cd configuration
295this is the configuration the device must be in for this driver to attach.
296This locator does not set the configuration; it is iterated by the bus
297enumeration.
298.It Cd interface
299this is the interface number within a device that an interface driver
300attaches to.
301.It Cd vendor
302this is the 16 bit vendor id of the device.
303.It Cd product
304this is the 16 bit product id of the device.
305.It Cd release
306this is the 16 bit release (revision) number of the device.
307.El
308The first locator can be used to pin down a particular device
309according to its physical position in the device tree.
310The last three locators can be used to pin down a particular
311device according to what device it actually is.
312.Pp
313The bus enumeration of the
314.Tn USB
315bus proceeds in several steps:
316.Bl -enum
317.It
318Any device specific driver can attach to the device.
319.It
320If none is found, any device class specific driver can attach.
321.It
322If none is found, all configurations are iterated over.
323For each configuration all the interface are iterated over and interface
324drivers can attach.
325If any interface driver attached in a certain
326configuration the iteration over configurations is stopped.
327.It
328If still no drivers have been found, the generic
329.Tn USB
330driver can attach.
331.El
332.Sh USB CONTROLLER INTERFACE
333Use the following to get access to the
334.Tn USB
335specific structures and defines.
336.Bd -literal
337#include \*[Lt]dev/usb/usb.h\*[Gt]
338.Ed
339.Pp
340The
341.Pa /dev/usbN
342can be opened and a few operations can be performed on it.
343The
344.Xr poll 2
345system call will say that I/O is possible on the controller device when a
346.Tn USB
347device has been connected or disconnected to the bus.
348.Pp
349The following
350.Xr ioctl 2
351commands are supported on the controller device:
352.Bl -tag -width xxxxxx
353.\" .It Dv USB_DISCOVER
354.\" This command will cause a complete bus discovery to be initiated.
355.\" If any devices attached or detached from the bus they will be
356.\" processed during this command.
357.\" This is the only way that new devices are found on the bus.
358.It Dv USB_DEVICEINFO Fa "struct usb_device_info"
359This command can be used to retrieve some information about a device
360on the bus.
361The
362.Va addr
363field should be filled before the call and the other fields will
364be filled by information about the device on that address.
365Should no such device exist an error is reported.
366.Bd -literal
367struct usb_device_info {
368	uint8_t	udi_bus;
369	uint8_t	udi_addr;
370	usb_event_cookie_t udi_cookie;
371	char		udi_product[USB_MAX_ENCODED_STRING_LEN];
372	char		udi_vendor[USB_MAX_ENCODED_STRING_LEN];
373	char		udi_release[8];
374	char		udi_serial[USB_MAX_ENCODED_STRING_LEN];
375	uint16_t	udi_productNo;
376	uint16_t	udi_vendorNo;
377	uint16_t	udi_releaseNo;
378	uint8_t	udi_class;
379	uint8_t	udi_subclass;
380	uint8_t	udi_protocol;
381	uint8_t	udi_config;
382	uint8_t	udi_speed;
383#define USB_SPEED_LOW  1
384#define USB_SPEED_FULL 2
385#define USB_SPEED_HIGH 3
386	int		udi_power;
387	int		udi_nports;
388	char		udi_devnames[USB_MAX_DEVNAMES][USB_MAX_DEVNAMELEN];
389	uint8_t	udi_ports[16];
390#define USB_PORT_ENABLED 0xff
391#define USB_PORT_SUSPENDED 0xfe
392#define USB_PORT_POWERED 0xfd
393#define USB_PORT_DISABLED 0xfc
394};
395.Ed
396.Pp
397The
398.Va product ,
399.Va vendor ,
400.Va release ,
401and
402.Va serial
403fields contain self-explanatory descriptions of the device.
404.Pp
405The
406.Va class
407field contains the device class.
408.Pp
409The
410.Va config
411field shows the current configuration of the device.
412.Pp
413The
414.Va lowspeed
415field
416is set if the device is a
417.Tn USB
418low speed device.
419.Pp
420The
421.Va power
422field shows the power consumption in milli-amps drawn at 5 volts,
423or zero if the device is self powered.
424.Pp
425If the device is a hub the
426.Va nports
427field is non-zero and the
428.Va ports
429field contains the addresses of the connected devices.
430If no device is connected to a port one of the
431.Va USB_PORT_*
432values indicates its status.
433.It Dv USB_DEVICESTATS Fa "struct usb_device_stats"
434This command retrieves statistics about the controller.
435.Bd -literal
436struct usb_device_stats {
437	u_long	uds_requests[4];
438};
439.Ed
440.Pp
441The
442.Va requests
443field is indexed by the transfer kind, i.e.
444.Va UE_* ,
445and indicates how many transfers of each kind have been completed
446by the controller.
447.It Dv USB_REQUEST Fa "struct usb_ctl_request"
448This command can be used to execute arbitrary requests on the control pipe.
449This is
450.Em DANGEROUS
451and should be used with great care since it
452can destroy the bus integrity.
453.El
454.Pp
455The include file
456.In dev/usb/usb.h
457contains definitions for the types used by the various
458.Xr ioctl 2
459calls.
460The naming convention of the fields for the various
461.Tn USB
462descriptors exactly follows the naming in the
463.Tn USB
464specification.
465Byte sized fields can be accessed directly, but word (16 bit)
466sized fields must be access by the
467.Fn UGETW field
468and
469.Fn USETW field value
470macros to handle byte order and alignment properly.
471.Pp
472The include file
473.In dev/usb/usbhid.h
474similarly contains the definitions for
475Human Interface Devices
476.Pq Tn HID .
477.Sh USB EVENT INTERFACE
478All
479.Tn USB
480events are reported via the
481.Pa /dev/usb
482device.
483This devices can be opened for reading and each
484.Xr read 2
485will yield an event record (if something has happened).
486The
487.Xr poll 2
488system call can be used to determine if an event record is available
489for reading.
490.Pp
491The event record has the following definition:
492.Bd -literal
493struct usb_event {
494        int                                 ue_type;
495#define USB_EVENT_CTRLR_ATTACH 1
496#define USB_EVENT_CTRLR_DETACH 2
497#define USB_EVENT_DEVICE_ATTACH 3
498#define USB_EVENT_DEVICE_DETACH 4
499#define USB_EVENT_DRIVER_ATTACH 5
500#define USB_EVENT_DRIVER_DETACH 6
501        struct timespec                     ue_time;
502        union {
503                struct {
504                        int                 ue_bus;
505                } ue_ctrlr;
506                struct usb_device_info      ue_device;
507                struct {
508                        usb_event_cookie_t  ue_cookie;
509                        char                ue_devname[16];
510                } ue_driver;
511        } u;
512};
513.Ed
514.Pp
515The
516.Va ue_type
517field identifies the type of event that is described.
518The possible events are attach/detach of a host controller,
519a device, or a device driver.
520The union contains information
521pertinent to the different types of events.
522.Pp
523The
524.Va ue_bus
525contains the number of the
526.Tn USB
527bus for host controller events.
528.Pp
529The
530.Va ue_device
531record contains information about the device in a device event event.
532.Pp
533The
534.Va ue_cookie
535is an opaque value that uniquely determines which
536device a device driver has been attached to (i.e., it equals
537the cookie value in the device that the driver attached to).
538The
539.Va ue_devname
540contains the name of the device (driver) as seen in, e.g.,
541kernel messages.
542.Pp
543Note that there is a separation between device and device
544driver events.
545A device event is generated when a physical
546USB device is attached or detached.
547A single USB device may
548have zero, one, or many device drivers associated with it.
549.Sh KERNEL THREADS
550For each USB bus, i.e., for each host controller, there is
551a kernel thread that handles attach and detach of devices on
552that bus.
553The thread is named
554.Va usbN
555where
556.Va N
557is the bus number.
558.Pp
559In addition there is a kernel thread,
560.Va usbtask ,
561which handles various minor tasks that are initiated from
562an interrupt context, but need to sleep, e.g., time-out
563abort of transfers.
564.Sh SEE ALSO
565.Xr usbhidaction 1 ,
566.Xr usbhidctl 1 ,
567.Xr cardbus 4 ,
568.Xr ehci 4 ,
569.Xr isa 4 ,
570.Xr ohci 4 ,
571.Xr pci 4 ,
572.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
573.Xr slhci 4 ,
574.Xr uhci 4 ,
575.Xr usbdevs 8
576.Rs
577.%T Universal Serial Bus Specifications Documents
578.%U http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
579.Re
580.Sh HISTORY
581The
582.Nm
583driver
584appeared in
585.Nx 1.4 .
586.Sh BUGS
587There should be a serial number locator, but
588.Nx
589does not have string valued locators.
590