path: root/sys/man/4/nusb

.TH NUSB 4
.SH NAME
audio,
disk,
ether,
kb,
serial,
ptp,
usbd - Universal Serial Bus drivers
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B nusb/audio
.I devid
.PP
.B nusb/disk
[
.B -d
]
.I devid
.PP
.B nusb/ether
[
.B -dD
] [
.B -t
.I ethertype
] [
.B -a
.I addr
]
.I devid
.PP
.B nusb/kb
[
.B -d
]
.I devid
.PP
.B nusb/serial
[
.B -d
]
.I devid
.PP
.B nusb/ptp
[
.B -dD
]
.I devid
.PP
.B nusb/usbd
[
.B -dD
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
These programs drive USB devices of specific classes via
.IR usb (3).
Usually they are started by
.IR nusbrc (8)
upon attachment of the device to the bus. All drivers except
.I usbd
take the decimal usb 
.I devid
of the device they should handle as their last argument. A
driver's instance handles only one device at a time.
.PP
Drivers that provide file systems make them available as shares under
.B /shr
(see
.IR shr (3))
or
.BR /shr/usb
(which is bound after
.BR /dev
by
.IR nusbrc (8)). 
.PP
Options
.B \-d
and
.B \-D
trigger debug diagnostics and file system debugging
diagnostics for most drivers. Repeating any one of these may
increase verbosity.
.SS Hubs
.I Usbd
enumerates the tree of USB hubs and configures the device on
attachment. It provides a filesystem with the file
.B usbevent
(usually seen as
.BR /dev/usbevent )
which, when read, returns a 6 column, space separated line of
text, one for each event. The columns are:
.B attach
or
.B detach
followed by
.I addr
.I vid
.I did
.I csp
and
.I hname .
The
.I addr
is the decimal device address assigned.
.I Vid
and
.I did
are formatted as 4 digit hexadecimal.
.I Csp
is the device class, subclass, protocol indentifier
formatted as 6 digit hexadecimal.
.I Usbd
assigns a stable device unique name based on the
device descriptor for
.I hname .
This information is read by
.IR nusbrc (8)
and the
.I addr
and
.I hname
are passed to a suitable driver as
.I devid
in the form \fIaddr\fB:\fIhname
.SS Keyboards and mice
.I Kb
supports USB keyboards and mice either as separate USB devices
or as a single combined USB device.
Scan codes from the keyboard are sent to
.B /dev/kbin
to let
.IR kbdfs (8)
process them.
Mouse events are sent to
.BR /dev/mousein
in the same way.
.SS Disks
.I Disk
configures and manages USB mass storage devices. It
provides a file system (usually seen under
.BR /dev )
that includes one directory per storage device, named
.BI sdU N [. M ]
in correspondence with the usb device unique name
and the storage unit number (or LUN). The LUN is omited
for single lun devices.
.PP
The storage device directory contains the usual files
served by
.IR sd (3):
.BR data ,
.BR raw ,
and
.BR ctl .
.PP
The
.B ctl
file supplies the device geometry and partitions when read.
.SS Ethernet
.I Ether
handles USB ethernet devices. The file system provided is
compatible to
.IR ether (3)
and added to the share
.B usbnet
(see
.IR shr (3))
which is bound after
.B /net
by
.IR nusbrc (8)
so the device will appear as
.BI /net/etherU N .
Without specifying the
.B -t
option, the device is assumed to be a CDC compliant ethernet
communication device. Other devices might require setting an
explicit
.IR ethertype ,
such as
.BR rndis ,
.BR smsc ,
.BR url ,
.BR lan78xx ,
.BR aue ,
.BR a88772
or
.BR a88178
(see
.IR nusbrc (8)).
On devices that support it, the mac address can be set using
the
.B -a
.IR addr
option.
.SS Serial and JTAG ports
.I Serial
provides a file system (usually seen under
.BR /dev )
that includes one directory per USB serial port, named
.BI eiaU N
or
.BI eiaU N [. M ].
In this directory there are two files,
.BR eiaU ,
similar to
.BI eia N
in
.IR uart (3),
and
.BR eiaUctl ,
which admits writes in the same format as
.BI eia N ctl
in
.IR uart (3).
Reading from
.B eiaUctl
gives the serial port's settings in the same format as
.BI eia N status
in
.IR uart (3).
Options are similar to those of
.IR disk .
.PP
JTAG ports are similar
but the files are named
.B jtag
and
.BR jtagctl .
.
.SS Audio devices
.I Audio
configures and manages a USB audio device.
It implements a file system, (normally seen under
.BI /dev )
compatible to
.IR audio (3).
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/nusb
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR audio (3),
.IR ether (3),
.IR mouse (3),
.IR sd (3),
.IR uart (3),
.IR usb (3),
.IR shr (3),
.IR nusbrc (8),
.IR kbdfs (8)
.SH BUGS
The various device drivers are generic USB drivers and
may work only for certain devices of each class.
.PP
USB ATA storage devices are not supported.
.PP
The serial driver works only for the Prolific chip and Ftdi,
and control of the
.B dcd
and
.B dsr
signals and some of the extra features are not implemented.
For Ftdi, only the Sheevaplug and Guruplug have been tried.
There is support for the EHCI debug port, but it loses bytes.