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39.Dd March 20, 2005
40.Dt EHCI 4
41.Os
42.Sh NAME
43.Nm ehci
44.Nd USB Enhanced Host Controller driver
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.Cd "device ehci"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50driver provides support for the
51.Tn USB
52Enhanced Host Controller Interface,
53which is used by
54.Tn USB
552.0 controllers.
56.Pp
57.Tn EHCI
58controllers are peculiar in that they can only handle the
59.Tn USB
602.0 protocol.
61This means that they normally have one or more companion controllers
62(i.e.,
63.Xr ohci 4
64or
65.Xr uhci 4 )
66handling USB 1.x devices.
67Consequently each
68.Tn USB
69connector is electrically connected to two
70.Tn USB
71controllers.
72The handling of this is totally automatic,
73but can be noticed since
74.Tn USB
751.x and
76.Tn USB
772.0 devices plugged in to the same
78connector appear to connect to different USB busses.
79.Sh SEE ALSO
80.Xr ohci 4 ,
81.Xr uhci 4 ,
82.Xr usb 4
83.Sh HISTORY
84The
85.Nm
86device driver first appeared in
87.Fx 5.1 .
88.Sh BUGS
89The driver is not finished and is quite buggy.
90.Pp
91There is currently no support for isochronous transfers.
92