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30.Dd November 22, 2006
31.Dt USB 4
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm usb
35.Nd Universal Serial Bus
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37To compile this driver into the kernel,
38place the following line in your
39kernel configuration file:
40.Bd -ragged -offset indent
41.Cd "device usb"
42.Ed
43.Pp
44Alternatively, to load the driver as a
45module at boot time, place the following line in
46.Xr loader.conf 5 :
47.Bd -literal -offset indent
48usb_load="YES"
49.Ed
50.Pp
51.In dev/usb/usb.h
52.In dev/usb/usbhid.h
53.Sh DESCRIPTION
54.Fx
55provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for
56.Tn USB
57devices.
58.Pp
59The
60.Nm
61driver has three layers: the controller, the bus, and the
62device layer.
63The controller attaches to a physical bus
64(like
65.Xr pci 4 ) .
66The
67.Tn USB
68bus attaches to the controller, and the root hub attaches
69to the controller.
70Any devices attached to the bus will attach to the root hub
71or another hub attached to the
72.Tn USB
73bus.
74.Pp
75The
76.Nm uhub
77device will always be present as it is needed for the
78root hub.
79.Sh INTRODUCTION TO USB
80The
81.Tn USB
82is a 12 Mb/s serial bus (1.5 Mb/s for low speed devices).
83Each
84.Tn USB
85has a host controller that is the master of the bus;
86all other devices on the bus only speak when spoken to.
87.Pp
88There can be up to 127 devices (apart from the host controller)
89on a bus, each with its own address.
90The addresses are assigned
91dynamically by the host when each device is attached to the bus.
92.Pp
93Within each device there can be up to 16 endpoints.
94Each endpoint
95is individually addressed and the addresses are static.
96Each of these endpoints will communicate in one of four different modes:
97.Em control , isochronous , bulk ,
98or
99.Em interrupt .
100A device always has at least one endpoint.
101This endpoint has address 0 and is a control
102endpoint and is used to give commands to and extract basic data,
103such as descriptors, from the device.
104Each endpoint, except the control endpoint, is unidirectional.
105.Pp
106The endpoints in a device are grouped into interfaces.
107An interface is a logical unit within a device; e.g.\&
108a compound device with both a keyboard and a trackball would present
109one interface for each.
110An interface can sometimes be set into different modes,
111called alternate settings, which affects how it operates.
112Different alternate settings can have different endpoints
113within it.
114.Pp
115A device may operate in different configurations.
116Depending on the
117configuration, the device may present different sets of endpoints
118and interfaces.
119.\" .Pp
120.\" Each device located on a hub has several
121.\" .Xr config 8
122.\" locators:
123.\" .Bl -tag -compact -width xxxxxx
124.\" .It Cd port
125.\" this is the number of the port on the closest upstream hub.
126.\" .It Cd configuration
127.\" this is the configuration the device must be in for this driver to attach.
128.\" This locator does not set the configuration; it is iterated by the bus
129.\" enumeration.
130.\" .It Cd interface
131.\" this is the interface number within a device that an interface driver
132.\" attaches to.
133.\" .It Cd vendor
134.\" this is the 16 bit vendor id of the device.
135.\" .It Cd product
136.\" this is the 16 bit product id of the device.
137.\" .It Cd release
138.\" this is the 16 bit release (revision) number of the device.
139.\" .El
140.\" The first locator can be used to pin down a particular device
141.\" according to its physical position in the device tree.
142.\" The last three locators can be used to pin down a particular
143.\" device according to what device it actually is.
144.Pp
145The bus enumeration of the
146.Tn USB
147bus proceeds in several steps:
148.Bl -enum
149.It
150Any device specific driver can attach to the device.
151.It
152If none is found, any device class specific driver can attach.
153.It
154If none is found, all configurations are iterated over.
155For each configuration, all the interfaces are iterated over, and interface
156drivers can attach.
157If any interface driver attached in a certain
158configuration, the iteration over configurations is stopped.
159.It
160If still no drivers have been found, the generic
161.Tn USB
162driver can attach.
163.El
164.Sh USB CONTROLLER INTERFACE
165Use the following to get access to the
166.Tn USB
167specific structures and defines.
168.Pp
169The
170.Pa /dev/usb Ns Ar N
171can be opened and a few operations can be performed on it.
172The
173.Xr poll 2
174system call will say that I/O is possible on the controller device when a
175.Tn USB
176device has been connected or disconnected to the bus.
177.Pp
178The following
179.Xr ioctl 2
180commands are supported on the controller device:
181.Bl -tag -width xxxxxx
182.It Dv USB_DISCOVER
183This command will cause a complete bus discovery to be initiated.
184If any devices attached or detached from the bus they will be
185processed during this command.
186This is the only way that new devices are found on the bus.
187.It Dv USB_DEVICEINFO Vt "struct usb_device_info"
188This command can be used to retrieve some information about a device
189on the bus.
190The
191.Va udi_addr
192field should be filled before the call and the other fields will
193be filled by information about the device on that address.
194Should no such device exist, an error is reported.
195.Bd -literal
196#define USB_MAX_DEVNAMES 4
197#define USB_MAX_DEVNAMELEN 16
198struct usb_device_info {
199	u_int8_t	udi_bus;
200	u_int8_t	udi_addr;	/* device address */
201	usb_event_cookie_t udi_cookie;
202	char		udi_product[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN];
203	char		udi_vendor[USB_MAX_STRING_LEN];
204	char		udi_release[8];
205	u_int16_t	udi_productNo;
206	u_int16_t	udi_vendorNo;
207	u_int16_t	udi_releaseNo;
208	u_int8_t	udi_class;
209	u_int8_t	udi_subclass;
210	u_int8_t	udi_protocol;
211	u_int8_t	udi_config;
212	u_int8_t	udi_speed;
213#define USB_SPEED_LOW  1
214#define USB_SPEED_FULL 2
215#define USB_SPEED_HIGH 3
216	int		udi_power;/* power consumption in mA, 0 if selfpowered */
217	int		udi_nports;
218	char		udi_devnames[USB_MAX_DEVNAMES][USB_MAX_DEVNAMELEN];
219	u_int8_t	udi_ports[16];/* hub only: addresses of devices on ports */
220#define USB_PORT_ENABLED 0xff
221#define USB_PORT_SUSPENDED 0xfe
222#define USB_PORT_POWERED 0xfd
223#define USB_PORT_DISABLED 0xfc
224};
225.Ed
226.Pp
227.Va udi_bus
228and
229.Va udi_addr
230contain the topological information for the device.
231.Va udi_devnames
232contains the device names of the connected drivers.
233For example, the
234third
235.Tn USB
236Zip drive connected will be
237.Li umass2 .
238The
239.Va udi_product , udi_vendor
240and
241.Va udi_release
242fields contain self-explanatory descriptions of the device.
243.Va udi_productNo , udi_vendorNo , udi_releaseNo , udi_class , udi_subclass
244and
245.Va udi_protocol
246contain the corresponding values from the device descriptors.
247The
248.Va udi_config
249field shows the current configuration of the device.
250.Pp
251.Va udi_speed
252indicates whether the device is at low speed
253.Pq Dv USB_SPEED_LOW ,
254full speed
255.Pq Dv USB_SPEED_FULL
256or high speed
257.Pq Dv USB_SPEED_HIGH .
258The
259.Va udi_power
260field shows the power consumption in milli-amps drawn at 5 volts,
261or zero if the device is self powered.
262.Pp
263If the device is a hub, the
264.Va udi_nports
265field is non-zero, and the
266.Va udi_ports
267field contains the addresses of the connected devices.
268If no device is connected to a port, one of the
269.Dv USB_PORT_*
270values indicates its status.
271.It Dv USB_DEVICESTATS Vt "struct usb_device_stats"
272This command retrieves statistics about the controller.
273.Bd -literal
274struct usb_device_stats {
275        u_long  uds_requests[4];
276};
277.Ed
278.Pp
279The
280.Va udi_requests
281field is indexed by the transfer kind, i.e.\&
282.Dv UE_* ,
283and indicates how many transfers of each kind that has been completed
284by the controller.
285.It Dv USB_REQUEST Vt "struct usb_ctl_request"
286This command can be used to execute arbitrary requests on the control pipe.
287This is
288.Em DANGEROUS
289and should be used with great care since it
290can destroy the bus integrity.
291.El
292.Pp
293The include file
294.In dev/usb/usb.h
295contains definitions for the types used by the various
296.Xr ioctl 2
297calls.
298The naming convention of the fields for the various
299.Tn USB
300descriptors exactly follows the naming in the
301.Tn USB
302specification.
303Byte sized fields can be accessed directly, but word (16 bit)
304sized fields must be access by the
305.Fn UGETW field
306and
307.Fn USETW field value
308macros to handle byte order and alignment properly.
309.Pp
310The include file
311.In dev/usb/usbhid.h
312similarly contains the definitions for
313Human Interface Devices
314.Pq Tn HID .
315.Sh USB EVENT INTERFACE
316All
317.Tn USB
318events are reported via the
319.Pa /dev/usb
320device.
321This device can be opened for reading and each
322.Xr read 2
323will yield an event record (if something has happened).
324The
325.Xr poll 2
326system call can be used to determine if an event record is available
327for reading.
328.Pp
329The event record has the following definition:
330.Bd -literal
331struct usb_event {
332        int                                 ue_type;
333#define USB_EVENT_CTRLR_ATTACH 1
334#define USB_EVENT_CTRLR_DETACH 2
335#define USB_EVENT_DEVICE_ATTACH 3
336#define USB_EVENT_DEVICE_DETACH 4
337#define USB_EVENT_DRIVER_ATTACH 5
338#define USB_EVENT_DRIVER_DETACH 6
339        struct timespec                     ue_time;
340        union {
341                struct {
342                        int                 ue_bus;
343                } ue_ctrlr;
344                struct usb_device_info      ue_device;
345                struct {
346                        usb_event_cookie_t  ue_cookie;
347                        char                ue_devname[16];
348                } ue_driver;
349        } u;
350};
351.Ed
352The
353.Va ue_type
354field identifies the type of event that is described.
355The possible events are attach/detach of a host controller,
356a device, or a device driver.
357The union contains information
358pertinent to the different types of events.
359Macros,
360.Fn USB_EVENT_IS_ATTACH "ue_type"
361and
362.Fn USB_EVENT_IS_DETACH "ue_type"
363can be used to determine if an event was an
364.Dq attach
365or a
366.Dq detach
367request.
368.Pp
369The
370.Va ue_bus
371contains the number of the
372.Tn USB
373bus for host controller events.
374.Pp
375The
376.Va ue_device
377record contains information about the device in a device event event.
378.Pp
379The
380.Va ue_cookie
381is an opaque value that uniquely determines which
382device a device driver has been attached to (i.e., it equals
383the cookie value in the device that the driver attached to).
384.Pp
385The
386.Va ue_devname
387contains the name of the device (driver) as seen in, e.g.,
388kernel messages.
389.Pp
390Note that there is a separation between device and device
391driver events.
392A device event is generated when a physical
393.Tn USB
394device is attached or detached.
395A single
396.Tn USB
397device may
398have zero, one, or many device drivers associated with it.
399.Sh SEE ALSO
400The
401.Tn USB
402specifications can be found at:
403.Pp
404.D1 Pa http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
405.Pp
406.Xr aue 4 ,
407.Xr axe 4 ,
408.Xr cue 4 ,
409.Xr ehci 4 ,
410.Xr kue 4 ,
411.Xr ohci 4 ,
412.Xr pci 4 ,
413.Xr rue 4 ,
414.Xr ucom 4 ,
415.Xr udav 4 ,
416.Xr ugen 4 ,
417.Xr uhci 4 ,
418.Xr uhid 4 ,
419.Xr ukbd 4 ,
420.Xr ulpt 4 ,
421.Xr umass 4 ,
422.Xr ums 4 ,
423.Xr uplcom 4 ,
424.Xr urio 4 ,
425.Xr uscanner 4 ,
426.Xr uvscom 4 ,
427.Xr usbdevs 8
428.Sh HISTORY
429The
430.Nm
431driver first appeared in
432.Fx 3.0 .
433.Sh AUTHORS
434The
435.Nm
436driver was written by
437.An Lennart Augustsson Aq augustss@carlstedt.se
438for the
439.Nx
440project.
441