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27.Dd November 26, 2013
28.Dt USB 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm usb
32.Nd Universal Serial Bus
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following line in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device usb"
39.Ed
40.Pp
41Alternatively, to load the driver as a
42module at boot time, place the following line in
43.Xr loader.conf 5 :
44.Bd -literal -offset indent
45usb_load="YES"
46.Ed
47.Sh USERLAND PROGRAMMING
48USB functions can be accessed from userland through the libusb library.
49See
50.Xr libusb 3
51for more information.
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53.Fx
54provides machine-independent bus support and drivers for
55.Tn USB
56devices in host and device side mode.
57.Pp
58The
59.Nm
60driver has three layers:
61.Bl -tag -width 6n -offset indent
62.It USB Controller (Bus)
63.It USB Device
64.It USB Driver
65.El
66.Pp
67The controller attaches to a physical bus
68like
69.Xr pci 4 .
70The
71.Tn USB
72bus attaches to the controller, and the root hub attaches
73to the controller.
74Any devices attached to the bus will attach to the root hub
75or another hub attached to the
76.Tn USB
77bus.
78.Pp
79The
80.Nm uhub
81device will always be present as it is needed for the
82root hub.
83.Sh INTRODUCTION TO USB
84The
85.Tn USB
86is a system where external devices can be connected to a PC.
87The most common USB speeds are:
88.Bl -tag -width 6n -offset indent
89.It Low Speed (1.5MBit/sec)
90.It Full Speed (12MBit/sec)
91.It High Speed (480MBit/sec)
92.El
93.Pp
94Each
95.Tn USB
96has a USB controller that is the master of the bus.
97The physical communication is simplex which means the host controller only communicates with one USB device at a time.
98.Pp
99There can be up to 127 devices connected to an USB HUB tree.
100The addresses are assigned
101dynamically by the host when each device is attached to the bus.
102.Pp
103Within each device there can be up to 16 endpoints.
104Each endpoint
105is individually addressed and the addresses are static.
106Each of these endpoints will communicate in one of four different modes:
107.Em control , isochronous , bulk ,
108or
109.Em interrupt .
110A device always has at least one endpoint.
111This endpoint has address 0 and is a control
112endpoint and is used to give commands to and extract basic data,
113such as descriptors, from the device.
114Each endpoint, except the control endpoint, is unidirectional.
115.Pp
116The endpoints in a device are grouped into interfaces.
117An interface is a logical unit within a device; e.g.\&
118a compound device with both a keyboard and a trackball would present
119one interface for each.
120An interface can sometimes be set into different modes,
121called alternate settings, which affects how it operates.
122Different alternate settings can have different endpoints
123within it.
124.Pp
125A device may operate in different configurations.
126Depending on the
127configuration, the device may present different sets of endpoints
128and interfaces.
129.Pp
130The bus enumeration of the
131.Tn USB
132bus proceeds in several steps:
133.Bl -enum
134.It
135Any interface specific driver can attach to the device.
136.It
137If none is found, generic interface class drivers can attach.
138.El
139.Sh SEE ALSO
140The
141.Tn USB
142specifications can be found at:
143.Pp
144.D1 Pa http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
145.Pp
146.Xr libusb 3 ,
147.Xr usbdi 4 ,
148.Xr aue 4 ,
149.Xr axe 4 ,
150.Xr axge 4 ,
151.Xr cue 4 ,
152.Xr ehci 4 ,
153.Xr kue 4 ,
154.Xr mos 4 ,
155.Xr ohci 4 ,
156.Xr pci 4 ,
157.Xr rue 4 ,
158.Xr ucom 4 ,
159.Xr udav 4 ,
160.Xr uhci 4 ,
161.Xr uhid 4 ,
162.Xr ukbd 4 ,
163.Xr ulpt 4 ,
164.Xr umass 4 ,
165.Xr ums 4 ,
166.Xr uplcom 4 ,
167.Xr urio 4 ,
168.Xr uvscom 4 ,
169.Xr usbconfig 8 ,
170.Xr xhci 4
171.Sh STANDARDS
172The
173.Nm
174module complies with the USB 2.0 standard.
175.Sh HISTORY
176The
177.Nm
178module has been inspired by the
179.Nx
180USB stack initially written by
181.An Lennart Augustsson .
182The
183.Nm
184module was written by
185.An Hans Petter Selasky Aq Mt hselasky@FreeBSD.org .
186