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51.\" $FreeBSD$
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53.Dd May 20, 2009
54.Dt USB 4
55.Os
56.Sh NAME
57.Nm usb
58.Nd Universal Serial Bus
59.Sh SYNOPSIS
60To compile this driver into the kernel,
61place the following line in your
62kernel configuration file:
63.Bd -ragged -offset indent
64.Cd "device usb"
65.Ed
66.Pp
67Alternatively, to load the driver as a
68module at boot time, place the following line in
69.Xr loader.conf 5 :
70.Bd -literal -offset indent
71usb_load="YES"
72.Ed
73.Sh USERLAND PROGRAMMING
74USB functions can be accessed from userland through the libusb library.
75See
76.Xr libusb 3
77for more information.
78.Sh DESCRIPTION
79.Fx
80provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for
81.Tn USB
82devices in host and device side mode.
83.Pp
84The
85.Nm
86driver has three layers:
87.Bl -tag
88.It USB Controller (Bus)
89.It USB Device
90.It USB Driver
91.El
92.Pp
93The controller attaches to a physical bus
94like
95.Xr pci 4 .
96The
97.Tn USB
98bus attaches to the controller, and the root hub attaches
99to the controller.
100Any devices attached to the bus will attach to the root hub
101or another hub attached to the
102.Tn USB
103bus.
104.Pp
105The
106.Nm uhub
107device will always be present as it is needed for the
108root hub.
109.Sh INTRODUCTION TO USB
110The
111.Tn USB
112is a system where external devices can be connected to a PC.
113The most common USB speeds are:
114.Bl -tag
115.It Low Speed (1.5MBit/sec)
116.It Full Speed (12MBit/sec)
117.It High Speed (480MBit/sec)
118.El
119.Pp
120Each
121.Tn USB
122has a USB controller that is the master of the bus.
123The physical communication is simplex which means the host controller only communicates with one USB device at a time.
124.Pp
125There can be up to 127 devices connected to an USB HUB tree.
126The addresses are assigned
127dynamically by the host when each device is attached to the bus.
128.Pp
129Within each device there can be up to 16 endpoints.
130Each endpoint
131is individually addressed and the addresses are static.
132Each of these endpoints will communicate in one of four different modes:
133.Em control , isochronous , bulk ,
134or
135.Em interrupt .
136A device always has at least one endpoint.
137This endpoint has address 0 and is a control
138endpoint and is used to give commands to and extract basic data,
139such as descriptors, from the device.
140Each endpoint, except the control endpoint, is unidirectional.
141.Pp
142The endpoints in a device are grouped into interfaces.
143An interface is a logical unit within a device; e.g.\&
144a compound device with both a keyboard and a trackball would present
145one interface for each.
146An interface can sometimes be set into different modes,
147called alternate settings, which affects how it operates.
148Different alternate settings can have different endpoints
149within it.
150.Pp
151A device may operate in different configurations.
152Depending on the
153configuration, the device may present different sets of endpoints
154and interfaces.
155.Pp
156The bus enumeration of the
157.Tn USB
158bus proceeds in several steps:
159.Bl -enum
160.It
161Any interface specific driver can attach to the device.
162.It
163If none is found, generic interface class drivers can attach.
164.El
165.Sh SEE ALSO
166The
167.Tn USB
168specifications can be found at:
169.Pp
170.D1 Pa http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
171.Pp
172.Xr libusb 3 ,
173.Xr usbdi 4 ,
174.Xr aue 4 ,
175.Xr axe 4 ,
176.Xr cue 4 ,
177.Xr ehci 4 ,
178.Xr kue 4 ,
179.Xr ohci 4 ,
180.Xr pci 4 ,
181.Xr rue 4 ,
182.Xr ucom 4 ,
183.Xr udav 4 ,
184.Xr uhci 4 ,
185.Xr uhid 4 ,
186.Xr ukbd 4 ,
187.Xr ulpt 4 ,
188.Xr umass 4 ,
189.Xr ums 4 ,
190.Xr uplcom 4 ,
191.Xr urio 4 ,
192.Xr uvscom 4 ,
193.Xr usbconfig 8
194.Sh STANDARDS
195The
196.Nm
197module complies with the USB 2.0 standard.
198.Sh HISTORY
199The
200.Nm
201module has been inspired by the NetBSD USB stack initially written by
202Lennart Augustsson. The
203.Nm
204module was written by
205.An Hans Petter Selasky Aq hselasky@freebsd.org .
206