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31.Dd $Mdocdate: December 17 2019 $
32.Dt USB 4
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm usb ,
36.Nm uhub
37.Nd introduction to Universal Serial Bus support
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Cd "# octeon specific"
40.Cd "dwctwo0 at iobus? irq 56"
41.Cd "# all architectures"
42.Cd "ehci*   at cardbus?"
43.Cd "ohci*   at cardbus?"
44.Cd "uhci*   at cardbus?"
45.Cd "ehci*   at pci?"
46.Cd "ohci*   at pci?"
47.Cd "uhci*   at pci?"
48.Cd "xhci*   at pci?"
49.Cd "usb*    at dwctwo?"
50.Cd "usb*    at ehci? flags 0x00"
51.Cd "usb*    at ohci? flags 0x00"
52.Cd "usb*    at uhci? flags 0x00"
53.Cd "usb*    at xhci? flags 0x00"
54.Cd "uhub*   at usb?"
55.Cd "uhub*   at uhub?"
56.Pp
57.Cd option	USBVERBOSE
58.Pp
59.In dev/usb/usb.h
60.In dev/usb/usbhid.h
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62.Ox
63provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for Universal
64Serial Bus (USB) devices.
65.Pp
66The
67.Ox
68.Nm
69driver has three layers (like
70.Xr scsi 4
71and
72.Xr pcmcia 4 ) :
73the controller, the bus, and the device layer.
74The controller attaches to a physical bus (like
75.Xr pci 4
76or
77.Xr cardbus 4 ) .
78The USB bus attaches to the controller and the root hub attaches
79to the USB bus.
80Devices, which may include further hubs, attach to the root hub.
81The attachment forms the same tree structure as the physical USB
82device tree.
83For each USB device there may be additional drivers attached to it.
84.Pp
85The
86.Cm uhub
87driver controls USB hubs and must always be present since there is
88at least one root hub in any USB system.
89.Pp
90The
91.Cm flags
92are used to specify if the devices on the USB bus should be probed
93early in the boot process.
94If the
95.Cm flags
96are specified with a value of 1, the USB bus will be probed when
97the USB host device is attached instead of waiting until kernel
98processes start running.
99.Pp
100.Ox
101provides support for the following devices.
102Note that not all architectures support all devices.
103.Ss Storage devices
104.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
105.It Xr umass 4
106USB Mass Storage Devices, e.g., external disk drives
107.El
108.Ss Wired network interfaces
109.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
110.It Xr aue 4
111ADMtek AN986/ADM8511 Pegasus family 10/100 USB Ethernet device
112.It Xr axe 4
113ASIX Electronics AX88172/AX88178/AX88772 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device
114.It Xr axen 4
115ASIX Electronics AX88179 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device
116.It Xr cdce 4
117USB Communication Device Class Ethernet device
118.It Xr cue 4
119CATC USB-EL1201A USB Ethernet device
120.It Xr kue 4
121Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB101B USB Ethernet device
122.It Xr mos 4
123MosChip MCS7730/7830/7832 10/100 USB Ethernet device
124.It Xr mue 4
125Microchip LAN75xx/LAN78xx 10/100/Gigabit USB Ethernet device
126.It Xr smsc 4
127SMSC LAN95xx 10/100 USB Ethernet device
128.It Xr udav 4
129Davicom DM9601 10/100 USB Ethernet device
130.It Xr ure 4
131RealTek RTL8152/RTL8153/RTL8153B/RTL8156 10/100/Gigabit/2.5Gb USB Ethernet device
132.It Xr url 4
133Realtek RTL8150L 10/100 USB Ethernet device
134.It Xr urndis 4
135USB Remote NDIS Ethernet device
136.El
137.Ss Wireless network interfaces
138.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
139.It Xr athn 4
140Atheros IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device
141.It Xr atu 4
142Atmel AT76C50x IEEE 802.11b wireless network device
143.It Xr bwfm 4
144Broadcom and Cypress IEEE 802.11a/ac/b/g/n wireless network device
145.It Xr otus 4
146Atheros USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device
147.It Xr rsu 4
148Realtek RTL8188SU/RTL8192SU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless network device
149.It Xr rum 4
150Ralink Technology/MediaTek USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device
151.It Xr run 4
152Ralink Technology/MediaTek USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network device
153.It Xr uath 4
154Atheros USB IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless network device
155.It Xr upgt 4
156Conexant/Intersil PrismGT SoftMAC USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
157.It Xr ural 4
158Ralink Technology/MediaTek USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
159.It Xr urtw 4
160Realtek RTL8187L/RTL8187B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
161.It Xr urtwn 4
162Realtek RTL8188CU/RTL8188EU/RTL8192CU/RTL8192EU USB IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless
163network device
164.It Xr wi 4
165Intersil PRISM 2-3 IEEE 802.11b wireless network device
166.It Xr zyd 4
167ZyDAS ZD1211/ZD1211B USB IEEE 802.11b/g wireless network device
168.El
169.Ss Serial and parallel interfaces
170.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
171.It Xr moscom 4
172MosChip Semiconductor MCS7703 based USB serial adapter
173.It Xr uark 4
174Arkmicro Technologies ARK3116 based USB serial adapter
175.It Xr ubsa 4
176Belkin USB serial adapter
177.It Xr uchcom 4
178WinChipHead CH341/340 based USB serial adapter
179.It Xr ucom 4
180USB tty support
181.It Xr ucrcom 4
182Chromebook USB serial console
183.It Xr ucycom 4
184Cypress microcontroller based USB serial adapter
185.It Xr uftdi 4
186FTDI USB serial adapter
187.It Xr uipaq 4
188iPAQ USB units
189.It Xr ukspan 4
190Keyspan USB serial adapter
191.It Xr ulpt 4
192USB printer support
193.It Xr umcs 4
194MosChip Semiconductor based USB multiport serial adapter
195.It Xr umct 4
196MCT USB-RS232 USB serial adapter
197.It Xr umodem 4
198USB modem support
199.It Xr umsm 4
200Qualcomm MSM modem device
201.It Xr uplcom 4
202Prolific PL-2303 USB serial adapter
203.It Xr uscom 4
204simple USB serial adapters
205.It Xr uslcom 4
206Silicon Laboratories CP210x based USB serial adapter
207.It Xr uslhcom 4
208Silicon Laboratories CP2110 based USB serial adapter
209.It Xr uticom 4
210Texas Instruments TUSB3410 USB serial adapter
211.It Xr uvisor 4
212USB Handspring Visor
213.It Xr uvscom 4
214SUNTAC Slipper U VS-10U USB serial adapter
215.It Xr uxrcom 4
216Exar XR21V1410 USB serial adapter
217.El
218.Ss Audio devices
219.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
220.It Xr uaudio 4
221USB audio devices
222.It Xr umidi 4
223USB MIDI devices
224.El
225.Ss Video devices
226.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
227.It Xr udl 4
228DisplayLink DL-120 / DL-160 USB display devices
229.It Xr utvfu 4
230USB Fushicai USBTV007 audio/video capture device
231.It Xr uvideo 4
232USB video devices
233.El
234.Ss Time receiver devices
235.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
236.It Xr udcf 4
237Gude ADS Expert mouseCLOCK USB timedelta sensor
238.It Xr umbg 4
239Meinberg Funkuhren USB5131 timedelta sensor
240.El
241.Ss Radio receiver devices
242.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
243.It Xr udsbr 4
244D-Link DSB-R100 USB radio device
245.El
246.Ss Human Interface Devices
247.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
248.It Xr fido 4
249FIDO/U2F security keys
250.It Xr ubcmtp 4
251Broadcom trackpad mouse
252.It Xr uhid 4
253Generic driver for Human Interface Devices
254.It Xr uhidev 4
255Base driver for all Human Interface Devices
256.It Xr ukbd 4
257USB keyboards that follow the boot protocol
258.It Xr ums 4
259USB HID mouse, touchscreen and digitiser devices
260.It Xr umt 4
261USB HID multitouch touchpad devices
262.It Xr uoaklux 4
263Toradex OAK USB illuminance sensor
264.It Xr uoakrh 4
265Toradex OAK USB temperature and relative humidity sensor
266.It Xr uoakv 4
267Toradex OAK USB +/-10V 8channel ADC interface
268.It Xr upd 4
269USB Power Devices sensor
270.It Xr uthum 4
271TEMPer HID thermometer and hygrometer
272.It Xr utpms 4
273Apple touchpad mouse
274.It Xr utrh 4
275USBRH temperature and humidity sensor
276.It Xr utwitch 4
277YUREX USB twitch/jiggle of knee sensor
278.It Xr uwacom 4
279Wacom USB tablets
280.El
281.Ss WAN network devices
282.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
283.It Xr umb 4
284USB Mobile Broadband Interface Model (MBIM)
285.El
286.Ss Miscellaneous devices
287.Bl -tag -width 12n -offset ind -compact
288.It Xr uberry 4
289Research In Motion BlackBerry
290.It Xr ugen 4
291USB generic device support
292.It Xr ugl 4
293Genesys Logic based host-to-host adapters
294.It Xr ugold 4
295TEMPer gold HID thermometer and hygrometer
296.It Xr uonerng 4
297Moonbase Otago OneRNG TRNG
298.It Xr uow 4
299Maxim/Dallas DS2490 USB 1-Wire adapter
300.It Xr upl 4
301Prolific based host-to-host adapters
302.It Xr urng 4
303USB Random Number Generator devices
304.It Xr usps 4
305USPS composite AC power and temperature sensor
306.It Xr uts 4
307USB touchscreen support
308.El
309.Sh INTRODUCTION TO USB
310There are different versions of the USB
311which provide different speeds.
312USB 3 can operate up to 5.0Gb/s.
313USB 2 operates at 480Mb/s, while USB versions 1 and 1.1 operate at
31412 Mb/s and 1.5 Mb/s for low speed devices.
315Each USB has a host controller that is the master of the bus;
316all other devices on the bus only speak when spoken to.
317.Pp
318There can be up to 127 devices (apart from the host controller)
319on a bus, each with its own address.
320The addresses are assigned
321dynamically by the host when each device is attached to the bus.
322.Pp
323Within each device there can be up to 16 endpoints.
324Each endpoint
325is individually addressed and the addresses are static.
326Each of these endpoints will communicate in one of four different modes:
327control, isochronous, bulk, or interrupt.
328A device always has at least one endpoint.
329This is a control endpoint at address 0
330and is used to give commands to the device and extract basic data,
331such as descriptors, from the device.
332Each endpoint, except the control endpoint, is unidirectional.
333.Pp
334The endpoints in a device are grouped into interfaces.
335An interface is a logical unit within a device; e.g.,
336a compound device with both a keyboard and a trackball would present
337one interface for each.
338An interface can sometimes be set into different modes,
339called alternate settings, which affects how it operates.
340Different alternate settings can have different endpoints
341within it.
342.Pp
343A device may operate in different configurations.
344Depending on the
345configuration the device may present different sets of endpoints
346and interfaces.
347.Pp
348Each device located on a hub has several
349.Xr config 8
350locators:
351.Pp
352.Bl -tag -width configuration -compact
353.It Cd port
354Number of the port on closest upstream hub.
355.It Cd configuration
356Configuration the device must be in for this driver to attach.
357This locator does not set the configuration; it is iterated by the bus
358enumeration.
359.It Cd interface
360Interface number within a device that an interface driver attaches to.
361.It Cd vendor
36216-bit vendor ID of the device.
363.It Cd product
36416-bit product ID of the device.
365.It Cd release
36616-bit release (revision) number of the device.
367.El
368.Pp
369The first locator can be used to pin down a particular device
370according to its physical position in the device tree.
371The last three locators can be used to pin down a particular
372device according to what device it actually is.
373.Pp
374The bus enumeration of the USB bus proceeds in several steps:
375.Bl -enum
376.It
377Any device-specific driver can attach to the device.
378.It
379If none is found, any device class specific driver can attach.
380.It
381If none is found, all configurations are iterated over.
382For each configuration all the interfaces are iterated over and interface
383drivers can attach.
384If any interface driver attached in a certain
385configuration, the iteration over configurations is stopped.
386.It
387If still no drivers have been found, the generic USB driver can attach.
388.El
389.Sh USB CONTROLLER INTERFACE
390Use the following to get access to the USB specific structures
391and defines:
392.Bd -literal -offset indent
393#include <dev/usb/usb.h>
394.Ed
395.Pp
396The
397.Pa /dev/usbN
398device can be opened and a few operations can be performed on it.
399The following
400.Xr ioctl 2
401commands are supported on the controller device:
402.Bl -tag -width xxxxxx
403.It Dv USB_DEVICEINFO Fa "struct usb_device_info"
404This command can be used to retrieve some information about a device
405on the bus.
406The
407.Va udi_addr
408field should be filled before the call and the other fields will
409be filled by information about the device on that address.
410Should no such device exist, an error is reported.
411.Bd -literal
412#define USB_MAX_DEVNAMES 4
413#define USB_MAX_DEVNAMELEN 16
414struct usb_device_info {
415	u_int8_t	udi_bus;
416	u_int8_t	udi_addr;	/* device address */
417	char		udi_product[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN];
418	char		udi_vendor[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN];
419	char		udi_release[8];
420	u_int16_t	udi_productNo;
421	u_int16_t	udi_vendorNo;
422	u_int16_t	udi_releaseNo;
423	u_int8_t	udi_class;
424	u_int8_t	udi_subclass;
425	u_int8_t	udi_protocol;
426	u_int8_t	udi_config;
427	u_int8_t	udi_speed;
428#define USB_SPEED_LOW  1
429#define USB_SPEED_FULL 2
430#define USB_SPEED_HIGH 3
431	int		udi_power;	/* power consumption */
432	int		udi_nports;
433	char		udi_devnames[USB_MAX_DEVNAMES]
434			    [USB_MAX_DEVNAMELEN];
435	u_int8_t	udi_ports[16];	/* hub only */
436#define USB_PORT_ENABLED 0xff
437#define USB_PORT_SUSPENDED 0xfe
438#define USB_PORT_POWERED 0xfd
439#define USB_PORT_DISABLED 0xfc
440	char		udi_serial[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN];
441};
442.Ed
443.Pp
444The
445.Va udi_bus
446field contains the device unit number of the device.
447.Pp
448The
449.Va udi_product ,
450.Va udi_vendor ,
451and
452.Va udi_release
453fields contain self-explanatory descriptions of the device.
454The
455.Va udi_productNo ,
456.Va udi_vendorNo ,
457and
458.Va udi_releaseNo
459fields contain numeric identifiers for the device.
460.Pp
461The
462.Va udi_class
463and
464.Va udi_subclass
465fields contain the device class and subclass.
466.Pp
467The
468.Va udi_config
469field shows the current configuration of the device.
470.Pp
471The
472.Va udi_protocol
473field contains the device protocol as given from the device.
474.Pp
475The
476.Va udi_speed
477field
478contains the speed of the device.
479.Pp
480The
481.Va udi_power
482field shows the power consumption in milli-amps drawn at 5 volts
483or is zero if the device is self powered.
484.Pp
485The
486.Va udi_devnames
487field contains the names and instance numbers of the device drivers
488for the devices attached to this device.
489.Pp
490If the device is a hub, the
491.Va udi_nports
492field is non-zero and the
493.Va udi_ports
494field contains the addresses of the connected devices.
495If no device is connected to a port, one of the
496.Dv USB_PORT_*
497values indicates its status.
498.It Dv USB_DEVICESTATS Fa "struct usb_device_stats"
499This command retrieves statistics about the controller.
500.Bd -unfilled
501struct usb_device_stats {
502	u_long	uds_requests[4];
503};
504.Ed
505.Pp
506The
507.Va uds_requests
508field is indexed by the transfer kind, i.e.\&
509.Dv UE_* ,
510and indicates how many transfers of each kind have been completed
511by the controller.
512.It Dv USB_DEVICE_GET_DDESC Fa "struct usb_device_ddesc"
513This command can be used to retrieve the device descriptor
514of a device on the bus.
515The
516.Va udd_addr
517field needs to be filled with the bus device address:
518.Bd -literal
519struct usb_device_ddesc {
520	u_int8_t	udd_bus;
521	u_int8_t	udd_addr;	/* device address */
522	usb_device_descriptor_t udd_desc;
523};
524.Ed
525.Pp
526The
527.Va udd_bus
528field contains the device unit number.
529.Pp
530The
531.Va udd_desc
532field contains the device descriptor structure.
533.It Dv USB_DEVICE_GET_CDESC Fa "struct usb_device_cdesc"
534This command can be used to retrieve the configuration descriptor for the
535given configuration of a device on the bus.
536The
537.Va udc_addr
538field needs to be filled with the bus device address.
539The
540.Va udc_config_index
541field needs to be filled with the configuration index for the
542relevant configuration descriptor.
543For convenience the current configuration can be specified by
544.Dv USB_CURRENT_CONFIG_INDEX :
545.Bd -literal
546struct usb_device_cdesc {
547	u_int8_t	udc_bus;
548	u_int8_t	udc_addr;	/* device address */
549	int		udc_config_index;
550	usb_config_descriptor_t udc_desc;
551};
552.Ed
553.Pp
554The
555.Va udc_bus
556field contains the device unit number.
557.Pp
558The
559.Va udc_desc
560field contains the configuration descriptor structure.
561.It Dv USB_DEVICE_GET_FDESC Fa "struct usb_device_fdesc"
562This command can be used to retrieve all descriptors for the
563given configuration of a device on the bus.
564The
565.Va udf_addr
566field needs to be filled with the bus device address.
567The
568.Va udf_config_index
569field needs to be filled with the configuration index for the
570relevant configuration descriptor.
571For convenience the current configuration can be specified by
572.Dv USB_CURRENT_CONFIG_INDEX .
573The
574.Va udf_data
575field needs to point to a memory area of the size given in the
576.Va udf_size
577field.
578The proper size can be determined by first issuing a
579.Dv USB_DEVICE_GET_CDESC
580command and inspecting the
581.Va wTotalLength
582field:
583.Bd -literal
584struct usb_device_fdesc {
585	u_int8_t	 udf_bus;
586	u_int8_t	 udf_addr;	/* device address */
587	int		 udf_config_index;
588	u_int		 udf_size;
589	u_char		*udf_data;
590};
591.Ed
592.Pp
593The
594.Va udf_bus
595field contains the device unit number.
596.Pp
597The
598.Va udf_data
599field contains all descriptors.
600.It Dv USB_REQUEST Fa "struct usb_ctl_request"
601This command can be used to execute arbitrary requests on the control pipe.
602This is
603.Em DANGEROUS
604and should be used with great care since it
605can destroy the bus integrity.
606.Pp
607The
608.Vt usb_ctl_request
609structure has the following definition:
610.Bd -literal
611typedef struct {
612        uByte           bmRequestType;
613        uByte           bRequest;
614        uWord           wValue;
615        uWord           wIndex;
616        uWord           wLength;
617} __packed usb_device_request_t;
618
619struct usb_ctl_request {
620	int	ucr_addr;
621	usb_device_request_t ucr_request;
622	void	*ucr_data;
623	int	ucr_flags;
624#define USBD_SHORT_XFER_OK 0x04	/* allow short reads */
625	int	ucr_actlen;	/* actual length transferred */
626};
627.Ed
628.Pp
629The
630.Va ucr_addr
631field identifies the device on which to perform the request.
632The
633.Va ucr_request
634field identifies parameters of the request, such as length and type.
635The
636.Va ucr_data
637field contains the location where data will be read from or written to.
638The
639.Va ucr_flags
640field specifies options for the request, and the
641.Va ucr_actlen
642field contains the actual length transferred as the result of the request.
643.El
644.Pp
645The include file
646.In dev/usb/usb.h
647contains definitions for the types used by the various
648.Xr ioctl 2
649calls.
650The naming convention of the fields for the various USB descriptors
651exactly follows the naming in the USB specification.
652Byte sized fields can be accessed directly, but word (16-bit)
653sized fields must be accessed by the
654.Fn UGETW field
655and
656.Fn USETW field value
657macros and double word (32-bit) sized fields must be accessed by the
658.Fn UGETDW field
659and
660.Fn USETDW field value
661macros to handle byte order and alignment properly.
662.Pp
663The include file
664.In dev/usb/usbhid.h
665similarly contains the definitions for
666Human Interface Devices (HID).
667.Sh SEE ALSO
668.Xr usbhidaction 1 ,
669.Xr usbhidctl 1 ,
670.Xr ioctl 2 ,
671.Xr dwctwo 4 ,
672.Xr ehci 4 ,
673.Xr ohci 4 ,
674.Xr uhci 4 ,
675.Xr xhci 4 ,
676.Xr config 8 ,
677.Xr usbdevs 8
678.Pp
679The USB specifications can be found at
680.Lk http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
681.Sh HISTORY
682The
683.Nm
684driver
685appeared in
686.Ox 2.6 .
687