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32.Dd March 20, 2005
33.Dt EHCI 4
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm ehci
37.Nd USB Enhanced Host Controller driver
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Cd "device ehci"
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43driver provides support for the
44.Tn USB
45Enhanced Host Controller Interface,
46which is used by
47.Tn USB
482.0 controllers.
49.Pp
50.Tn EHCI
51controllers are peculiar in that they can only handle the
52.Tn USB
532.0 protocol.
54This means that they normally have one or more companion controllers
55(i.e.,
56.Xr ohci 4
57or
58.Xr uhci 4 )
59handling USB 1.x devices.
60Consequently each
61.Tn USB
62connector is electrically connected to two
63.Tn USB
64controllers.
65The handling of this is totally automatic,
66but can be noticed since
67.Tn USB
681.x and
69.Tn USB
702.0 devices plugged in to the same
71connector appear to connect to different USB busses.
72.Sh SEE ALSO
73.Xr ohci 4 ,
74.Xr uhci 4 ,
75.Xr usb 4
76.Sh HISTORY
77The
78.Nm
79device driver first appeared in
80.Fx 5.1 .
81.Sh BUGS
82The driver is not finished and is quite buggy.
83.Pp
84There is currently no support for isochronous transfers.
85