ref: 8150f689959f71410f56ab66c0e89698c58459bc
dir: /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 ther 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 formatd 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 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.