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1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | ||
2 | <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" | ||
3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> | ||
4 | |||
5 | <book id="USB-Gadget-API"> | ||
6 | <bookinfo> | ||
7 | <title>USB Gadget API for Linux</title> | ||
8 | <date>20 August 2004</date> | ||
9 | <edition>20 August 2004</edition> | ||
10 | |||
11 | <legalnotice> | ||
12 | <para> | ||
13 | This documentation is free software; you can redistribute | ||
14 | it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public | ||
15 | License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | ||
16 | version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later | ||
17 | version. | ||
18 | </para> | ||
19 | |||
20 | <para> | ||
21 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be | ||
22 | useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied | ||
23 | warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. | ||
24 | See the GNU General Public License for more details. | ||
25 | </para> | ||
26 | |||
27 | <para> | ||
28 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public | ||
29 | License along with this program; if not, write to the Free | ||
30 | Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, | ||
31 | MA 02111-1307 USA | ||
32 | </para> | ||
33 | |||
34 | <para> | ||
35 | For more details see the file COPYING in the source | ||
36 | distribution of Linux. | ||
37 | </para> | ||
38 | </legalnotice> | ||
39 | <copyright> | ||
40 | <year>2003-2004</year> | ||
41 | <holder>David Brownell</holder> | ||
42 | </copyright> | ||
43 | |||
44 | <author> | ||
45 | <firstname>David</firstname> | ||
46 | <surname>Brownell</surname> | ||
47 | <affiliation> | ||
48 | <address><email>dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net</email></address> | ||
49 | </affiliation> | ||
50 | </author> | ||
51 | </bookinfo> | ||
52 | |||
53 | <toc></toc> | ||
54 | |||
55 | <chapter><title>Introduction</title> | ||
56 | |||
57 | <para>This document presents a Linux-USB "Gadget" | ||
58 | kernel mode | ||
59 | API, for use within peripherals and other USB devices | ||
60 | that embed Linux. | ||
61 | It provides an overview of the API structure, | ||
62 | and shows how that fits into a system development project. | ||
63 | This is the first such API released on Linux to address | ||
64 | a number of important problems, including: </para> | ||
65 | |||
66 | <itemizedlist> | ||
67 | <listitem><para>Supports USB 2.0, for high speed devices which | ||
68 | can stream data at several dozen megabytes per second. | ||
69 | </para></listitem> | ||
70 | <listitem><para>Handles devices with dozens of endpoints just as | ||
71 | well as ones with just two fixed-function ones. Gadget drivers | ||
72 | can be written so they're easy to port to new hardware. | ||
73 | </para></listitem> | ||
74 | <listitem><para>Flexible enough to expose more complex USB device | ||
75 | capabilities such as multiple configurations, multiple interfaces, | ||
76 | composite devices, | ||
77 | and alternate interface settings. | ||
78 | </para></listitem> | ||
79 | <listitem><para>USB "On-The-Go" (OTG) support, in conjunction | ||
80 | with updates to the Linux-USB host side. | ||
81 | </para></listitem> | ||
82 | <listitem><para>Sharing data structures and API models with the | ||
83 | Linux-USB host side API. This helps the OTG support, and | ||
84 | looks forward to more-symmetric frameworks (where the same | ||
85 | I/O model is used by both host and device side drivers). | ||
86 | </para></listitem> | ||
87 | <listitem><para>Minimalist, so it's easier to support new device | ||
88 | controller hardware. I/O processing doesn't imply large | ||
89 | demands for memory or CPU resources. | ||
90 | </para></listitem> | ||
91 | </itemizedlist> | ||
92 | |||
93 | |||
94 | <para>Most Linux developers will not be able to use this API, since they | ||
95 | have USB "host" hardware in a PC, workstation, or server. | ||
96 | Linux users with embedded systems are more likely to | ||
97 | have USB peripheral hardware. | ||
98 | To distinguish drivers running inside such hardware from the | ||
99 | more familiar Linux "USB device drivers", | ||
100 | which are host side proxies for the real USB devices, | ||
101 | a different term is used: | ||
102 | the drivers inside the peripherals are "USB gadget drivers". | ||
103 | In USB protocol interactions, the device driver is the master | ||
104 | (or "client driver") | ||
105 | and the gadget driver is the slave (or "function driver"). | ||
106 | </para> | ||
107 | |||
108 | <para>The gadget API resembles the host side Linux-USB API in that both | ||
109 | use queues of request objects to package I/O buffers, and those requests | ||
110 | may be submitted or canceled. | ||
111 | They share common definitions for the standard USB | ||
112 | <emphasis>Chapter 9</emphasis> messages, structures, and constants. | ||
113 | Also, both APIs bind and unbind drivers to devices. | ||
114 | The APIs differ in detail, since the host side's current | ||
115 | URB framework exposes a number of implementation details | ||
116 | and assumptions that are inappropriate for a gadget API. | ||
117 | While the model for control transfers and configuration | ||
118 | management is necessarily different (one side is a hardware-neutral master, | ||
119 | the other is a hardware-aware slave), the endpoint I/0 API used here | ||
120 | should also be usable for an overhead-reduced host side API. | ||
121 | </para> | ||
122 | |||
123 | </chapter> | ||
124 | |||
125 | <chapter id="structure"><title>Structure of Gadget Drivers</title> | ||
126 | |||
127 | <para>A system running inside a USB peripheral | ||
128 | normally has at least three layers inside the kernel to handle | ||
129 | USB protocol processing, and may have additional layers in | ||
130 | user space code. | ||
131 | The "gadget" API is used by the middle layer to interact | ||
132 | with the lowest level (which directly handles hardware). | ||
133 | </para> | ||
134 | |||
135 | <para>In Linux, from the bottom up, these layers are: | ||
136 | </para> | ||
137 | |||
138 | <variablelist> | ||
139 | |||
140 | <varlistentry> | ||
141 | <term><emphasis>USB Controller Driver</emphasis></term> | ||
142 | |||
143 | <listitem> | ||
144 | <para>This is the lowest software level. | ||
145 | It is the only layer that talks to hardware, | ||
146 | through registers, fifos, dma, irqs, and the like. | ||
147 | The <filename><linux/usb_gadget.h></filename> API abstracts | ||
148 | the peripheral controller endpoint hardware. | ||
149 | That hardware is exposed through endpoint objects, which accept | ||
150 | streams of IN/OUT buffers, and through callbacks that interact | ||
151 | with gadget drivers. | ||
152 | Since normal USB devices only have one upstream | ||
153 | port, they only have one of these drivers. | ||
154 | The controller driver can support any number of different | ||
155 | gadget drivers, but only one of them can be used at a time. | ||
156 | </para> | ||
157 | |||
158 | <para>Examples of such controller hardware include | ||
159 | the PCI-based NetChip 2280 USB 2.0 high speed controller, | ||
160 | the SA-11x0 or PXA-25x UDC (found within many PDAs), | ||
161 | and a variety of other products. | ||
162 | </para> | ||
163 | |||
164 | </listitem></varlistentry> | ||
165 | |||
166 | <varlistentry> | ||
167 | <term><emphasis>Gadget Driver</emphasis></term> | ||
168 | |||
169 | <listitem> | ||
170 | <para>The lower boundary of this driver implements hardware-neutral | ||
171 | USB functions, using calls to the controller driver. | ||
172 | Because such hardware varies widely in capabilities and restrictions, | ||
173 | and is used in embedded environments where space is at a premium, | ||
174 | the gadget driver is often configured at compile time | ||
175 | to work with endpoints supported by one particular controller. | ||
176 | Gadget drivers may be portable to several different controllers, | ||
177 | using conditional compilation. | ||
178 | (Recent kernels substantially simplify the work involved in | ||
179 | supporting new hardware, by <emphasis>autoconfiguring</emphasis> | ||
180 | endpoints automatically for many bulk-oriented drivers.) | ||
181 | Gadget driver responsibilities include: | ||
182 | </para> | ||
183 | <itemizedlist> | ||
184 | <listitem><para>handling setup requests (ep0 protocol responses) | ||
185 | possibly including class-specific functionality | ||
186 | </para></listitem> | ||
187 | <listitem><para>returning configuration and string descriptors | ||
188 | </para></listitem> | ||
189 | <listitem><para>(re)setting configurations and interface | ||
190 | altsettings, including enabling and configuring endpoints | ||
191 | </para></listitem> | ||
192 | <listitem><para>handling life cycle events, such as managing | ||
193 | bindings to hardware, | ||
194 | USB suspend/resume, remote wakeup, | ||
195 | and disconnection from the USB host. | ||
196 | </para></listitem> | ||
197 | <listitem><para>managing IN and OUT transfers on all currently | ||
198 | enabled endpoints | ||
199 | </para></listitem> | ||
200 | </itemizedlist> | ||
201 | |||
202 | <para> | ||
203 | Such drivers may be modules of proprietary code, although | ||
204 | that approach is discouraged in the Linux community. | ||
205 | </para> | ||
206 | </listitem></varlistentry> | ||
207 | |||
208 | <varlistentry> | ||
209 | <term><emphasis>Upper Level</emphasis></term> | ||
210 | |||
211 | <listitem> | ||
212 | <para>Most gadget drivers have an upper boundary that connects | ||
213 | to some Linux driver or framework in Linux. | ||
214 | Through that boundary flows the data which the gadget driver | ||
215 | produces and/or consumes through protocol transfers over USB. | ||
216 | Examples include: | ||
217 | </para> | ||
218 | <itemizedlist> | ||
219 | <listitem><para>user mode code, using generic (gadgetfs) | ||
220 | or application specific files in | ||
221 | <filename>/dev</filename> | ||
222 | </para></listitem> | ||
223 | <listitem><para>networking subsystem (for network gadgets, | ||
224 | like the CDC Ethernet Model gadget driver) | ||
225 | </para></listitem> | ||
226 | <listitem><para>data capture drivers, perhaps video4Linux or | ||
227 | a scanner driver; or test and measurement hardware. | ||
228 | </para></listitem> | ||
229 | <listitem><para>input subsystem (for HID gadgets) | ||
230 | </para></listitem> | ||
231 | <listitem><para>sound subsystem (for audio gadgets) | ||
232 | </para></listitem> | ||
233 | <listitem><para>file system (for PTP gadgets) | ||
234 | </para></listitem> | ||
235 | <listitem><para>block i/o subsystem (for usb-storage gadgets) | ||
236 | </para></listitem> | ||
237 | <listitem><para>... and more </para></listitem> | ||
238 | </itemizedlist> | ||
239 | </listitem></varlistentry> | ||
240 | |||
241 | <varlistentry> | ||
242 | <term><emphasis>Additional Layers</emphasis></term> | ||
243 | |||
244 | <listitem> | ||
245 | <para>Other layers may exist. | ||
246 | These could include kernel layers, such as network protocol stacks, | ||
247 | as well as user mode applications building on standard POSIX | ||
248 | system call APIs such as | ||
249 | <emphasis>open()</emphasis>, <emphasis>close()</emphasis>, | ||
250 | <emphasis>read()</emphasis> and <emphasis>write()</emphasis>. | ||
251 | On newer systems, POSIX Async I/O calls may be an option. | ||
252 | Such user mode code will not necessarily be subject to | ||
253 | the GNU General Public License (GPL). | ||
254 | </para> | ||
255 | </listitem></varlistentry> | ||
256 | |||
257 | |||
258 | </variablelist> | ||
259 | |||
260 | <para>OTG-capable systems will also need to include a standard Linux-USB | ||
261 | host side stack, | ||
262 | with <emphasis>usbcore</emphasis>, | ||
263 | one or more <emphasis>Host Controller Drivers</emphasis> (HCDs), | ||
264 | <emphasis>USB Device Drivers</emphasis> to support | ||
265 | the OTG "Targeted Peripheral List", | ||
266 | and so forth. | ||
267 | There will also be an <emphasis>OTG Controller Driver</emphasis>, | ||
268 | which is visible to gadget and device driver developers only indirectly. | ||
269 | That helps the host and device side USB controllers implement the | ||
270 | two new OTG protocols (HNP and SRP). | ||
271 | Roles switch (host to peripheral, or vice versa) using HNP | ||
272 | during USB suspend processing, and SRP can be viewed as a | ||
273 | more battery-friendly kind of device wakeup protocol. | ||
274 | </para> | ||
275 | |||
276 | <para>Over time, reusable utilities are evolving to help make some | ||
277 | gadget driver tasks simpler. | ||
278 | For example, building configuration descriptors from vectors of | ||
279 | descriptors for the configurations interfaces and endpoints is | ||
280 | now automated, and many drivers now use autoconfiguration to | ||
281 | choose hardware endpoints and initialize their descriptors. | ||
282 | |||
283 | A potential example of particular interest | ||
284 | is code implementing standard USB-IF protocols for | ||
285 | HID, networking, storage, or audio classes. | ||
286 | Some developers are interested in KDB or KGDB hooks, to let | ||
287 | target hardware be remotely debugged. | ||
288 | Most such USB protocol code doesn't need to be hardware-specific, | ||
289 | any more than network protocols like X11, HTTP, or NFS are. | ||
290 | Such gadget-side interface drivers should eventually be combined, | ||
291 | to implement composite devices. | ||
292 | </para> | ||
293 | |||
294 | </chapter> | ||
295 | |||
296 | |||
297 | <chapter id="api"><title>Kernel Mode Gadget API</title> | ||
298 | |||
299 | <para>Gadget drivers declare themselves through a | ||
300 | <emphasis>struct usb_gadget_driver</emphasis>, which is responsible for | ||
301 | most parts of enumeration for a <emphasis>struct usb_gadget</emphasis>. | ||
302 | The response to a set_configuration usually involves | ||
303 | enabling one or more of the <emphasis>struct usb_ep</emphasis> objects | ||
304 | exposed by the gadget, and submitting one or more | ||
305 | <emphasis>struct usb_request</emphasis> buffers to transfer data. | ||
306 | Understand those four data types, and their operations, and | ||
307 | you will understand how this API works. | ||
308 | </para> | ||
309 | |||
310 | <note><title>Incomplete Data Type Descriptions</title> | ||
311 | |||
312 | <para>This documentation was prepared using the standard Linux | ||
313 | kernel <filename>docproc</filename> tool, which turns text | ||
314 | and in-code comments into SGML DocBook and then into usable | ||
315 | formats such as HTML or PDF. | ||
316 | Other than the "Chapter 9" data types, most of the significant | ||
317 | data types and functions are described here. | ||
318 | </para> | ||
319 | |||
320 | <para>However, docproc does not understand all the C constructs | ||
321 | that are used, so some relevant information is likely omitted from | ||
322 | what you are reading. | ||
323 | One example of such information is endpoint autoconfiguration. | ||
324 | You'll have to read the header file, and use example source | ||
325 | code (such as that for "Gadget Zero"), to fully understand the API. | ||
326 | </para> | ||
327 | |||
328 | <para>The part of the API implementing some basic | ||
329 | driver capabilities is specific to the version of the | ||
330 | Linux kernel that's in use. | ||
331 | The 2.6 kernel includes a <emphasis>driver model</emphasis> | ||
332 | framework that has no analogue on earlier kernels; | ||
333 | so those parts of the gadget API are not fully portable. | ||
334 | (They are implemented on 2.4 kernels, but in a different way.) | ||
335 | The driver model state is another part of this API that is | ||
336 | ignored by the kerneldoc tools. | ||
337 | </para> | ||
338 | </note> | ||
339 | |||
340 | <para>The core API does not expose | ||
341 | every possible hardware feature, only the most widely available ones. | ||
342 | There are significant hardware features, such as device-to-device DMA | ||
343 | (without temporary storage in a memory buffer) | ||
344 | that would be added using hardware-specific APIs. | ||
345 | </para> | ||
346 | |||
347 | <para>This API allows drivers to use conditional compilation to handle | ||
348 | endpoint capabilities of different hardware, but doesn't require that. | ||
349 | Hardware tends to have arbitrary restrictions, relating to | ||
350 | transfer types, addressing, packet sizes, buffering, and availability. | ||
351 | As a rule, such differences only matter for "endpoint zero" logic | ||
352 | that handles device configuration and management. | ||
353 | The API supports limited run-time | ||
354 | detection of capabilities, through naming conventions for endpoints. | ||
355 | Many drivers will be able to at least partially autoconfigure | ||
356 | themselves. | ||
357 | In particular, driver init sections will often have endpoint | ||
358 | autoconfiguration logic that scans the hardware's list of endpoints | ||
359 | to find ones matching the driver requirements | ||
360 | (relying on those conventions), to eliminate some of the most | ||
361 | common reasons for conditional compilation. | ||
362 | </para> | ||
363 | |||
364 | <para>Like the Linux-USB host side API, this API exposes | ||
365 | the "chunky" nature of USB messages: I/O requests are in terms | ||
366 | of one or more "packets", and packet boundaries are visible to drivers. | ||
367 | Compared to RS-232 serial protocols, USB resembles | ||
368 | synchronous protocols like HDLC | ||
369 | (N bytes per frame, multipoint addressing, host as the primary | ||
370 | station and devices as secondary stations) | ||
371 | more than asynchronous ones | ||
372 | (tty style: 8 data bits per frame, no parity, one stop bit). | ||
373 | So for example the controller drivers won't buffer | ||
374 | two single byte writes into a single two-byte USB IN packet, | ||
375 | although gadget drivers may do so when they implement | ||
376 | protocols where packet boundaries (and "short packets") | ||
377 | are not significant. | ||
378 | </para> | ||
379 | |||
380 | <sect1 id="lifecycle"><title>Driver Life Cycle</title> | ||
381 | |||
382 | <para>Gadget drivers make endpoint I/O requests to hardware without | ||
383 | needing to know many details of the hardware, but driver | ||
384 | setup/configuration code needs to handle some differences. | ||
385 | Use the API like this: | ||
386 | </para> | ||
387 | |||
388 | <orderedlist numeration='arabic'> | ||
389 | |||
390 | <listitem><para>Register a driver for the particular device side | ||
391 | usb controller hardware, | ||
392 | such as the net2280 on PCI (USB 2.0), | ||
393 | sa11x0 or pxa25x as found in Linux PDAs, | ||
394 | and so on. | ||
395 | At this point the device is logically in the USB ch9 initial state | ||
396 | ("attached"), drawing no power and not usable | ||
397 | (since it does not yet support enumeration). | ||
398 | Any host should not see the device, since it's not | ||
399 | activated the data line pullup used by the host to | ||
400 | detect a device, even if VBUS power is available. | ||
401 | </para></listitem> | ||
402 | |||
403 | <listitem><para>Register a gadget driver that implements some higher level | ||
404 | device function. That will then bind() to a usb_gadget, which | ||
405 | activates the data line pullup sometime after detecting VBUS. | ||
406 | </para></listitem> | ||
407 | |||
408 | <listitem><para>The hardware driver can now start enumerating. | ||
409 | The steps it handles are to accept USB power and set_address requests. | ||
410 | Other steps are handled by the gadget driver. | ||
411 | If the gadget driver module is unloaded before the host starts to | ||
412 | enumerate, steps before step 7 are skipped. | ||
413 | </para></listitem> | ||
414 | |||
415 | <listitem><para>The gadget driver's setup() call returns usb descriptors, | ||
416 | based both on what the bus interface hardware provides and on the | ||
417 | functionality being implemented. | ||
418 | That can involve alternate settings or configurations, | ||
419 | unless the hardware prevents such operation. | ||
420 | For OTG devices, each configuration descriptor includes | ||
421 | an OTG descriptor. | ||
422 | </para></listitem> | ||
423 | |||
424 | <listitem><para>The gadget driver handles the last step of enumeration, | ||
425 | when the USB host issues a set_configuration call. | ||
426 | It enables all endpoints used in that configuration, | ||
427 | with all interfaces in their default settings. | ||
428 | That involves using a list of the hardware's endpoints, enabling each | ||
429 | endpoint according to its descriptor. | ||
430 | It may also involve using <function>usb_gadget_vbus_draw</function> | ||
431 | to let more power be drawn from VBUS, as allowed by that configuration. | ||
432 | For OTG devices, setting a configuration may also involve reporting | ||
433 | HNP capabilities through a user interface. | ||
434 | </para></listitem> | ||
435 | |||
436 | <listitem><para>Do real work and perform data transfers, possibly involving | ||
437 | changes to interface settings or switching to new configurations, until the | ||
438 | device is disconnect()ed from the host. | ||
439 | Queue any number of transfer requests to each endpoint. | ||
440 | It may be suspended and resumed several times before being disconnected. | ||
441 | On disconnect, the drivers go back to step 3 (above). | ||
442 | </para></listitem> | ||
443 | |||
444 | <listitem><para>When the gadget driver module is being unloaded, | ||
445 | the driver unbind() callback is issued. That lets the controller | ||
446 | driver be unloaded. | ||
447 | </para></listitem> | ||
448 | |||
449 | </orderedlist> | ||
450 | |||
451 | <para>Drivers will normally be arranged so that just loading the | ||
452 | gadget driver module (or statically linking it into a Linux kernel) | ||
453 | allows the peripheral device to be enumerated, but some drivers | ||
454 | will defer enumeration until some higher level component (like | ||
455 | a user mode daemon) enables it. | ||
456 | Note that at this lowest level there are no policies about how | ||
457 | ep0 configuration logic is implemented, | ||
458 | except that it should obey USB specifications. | ||
459 | Such issues are in the domain of gadget drivers, | ||
460 | including knowing about implementation constraints | ||
461 | imposed by some USB controllers | ||
462 | or understanding that composite devices might happen to | ||
463 | be built by integrating reusable components. | ||
464 | </para> | ||
465 | |||
466 | <para>Note that the lifecycle above can be slightly different | ||
467 | for OTG devices. | ||
468 | Other than providing an additional OTG descriptor in each | ||
469 | configuration, only the HNP-related differences are particularly | ||
470 | visible to driver code. | ||
471 | They involve reporting requirements during the SET_CONFIGURATION | ||
472 | request, and the option to invoke HNP during some suspend callbacks. | ||
473 | Also, SRP changes the semantics of | ||
474 | <function>usb_gadget_wakeup</function> | ||
475 | slightly. | ||
476 | </para> | ||
477 | |||
478 | </sect1> | ||
479 | |||
480 | <sect1 id="ch9"><title>USB 2.0 Chapter 9 Types and Constants</title> | ||
481 | |||
482 | <para>Gadget drivers | ||
483 | rely on common USB structures and constants | ||
484 | defined in the | ||
485 | <filename><linux/usb_ch9.h></filename> | ||
486 | header file, which is standard in Linux 2.6 kernels. | ||
487 | These are the same types and constants used by host | ||
488 | side drivers (and usbcore). | ||
489 | </para> | ||
490 | |||
491 | !Iinclude/linux/usb_ch9.h | ||
492 | </sect1> | ||
493 | |||
494 | <sect1 id="core"><title>Core Objects and Methods</title> | ||
495 | |||
496 | <para>These are declared in | ||
497 | <filename><linux/usb_gadget.h></filename>, | ||
498 | and are used by gadget drivers to interact with | ||
499 | USB peripheral controller drivers. | ||
500 | </para> | ||
501 | |||
502 | <!-- yeech, this is ugly in nsgmls PDF output. | ||
503 | |||
504 | the PDF bookmark and refentry output nesting is wrong, | ||
505 | and the member/argument documentation indents ugly. | ||
506 | |||
507 | plus something (docproc?) adds whitespace before the | ||
508 | descriptive paragraph text, so it can't line up right | ||
509 | unless the explanations are trivial. | ||
510 | --> | ||
511 | |||
512 | !Iinclude/linux/usb_gadget.h | ||
513 | </sect1> | ||
514 | |||
515 | <sect1 id="utils"><title>Optional Utilities</title> | ||
516 | |||
517 | <para>The core API is sufficient for writing a USB Gadget Driver, | ||
518 | but some optional utilities are provided to simplify common tasks. | ||
519 | These utilities include endpoint autoconfiguration. | ||
520 | </para> | ||
521 | |||
522 | !Edrivers/usb/gadget/usbstring.c | ||
523 | !Edrivers/usb/gadget/config.c | ||
524 | <!-- !Edrivers/usb/gadget/epautoconf.c --> | ||
525 | </sect1> | ||
526 | |||
527 | </chapter> | ||
528 | |||
529 | <chapter id="controllers"><title>Peripheral Controller Drivers</title> | ||
530 | |||
531 | <para>The first hardware supporting this API was the NetChip 2280 | ||
532 | controller, which supports USB 2.0 high speed and is based on PCI. | ||
533 | This is the <filename>net2280</filename> driver module. | ||
534 | The driver supports Linux kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6; | ||
535 | contact NetChip Technologies for development boards and product | ||
536 | information. | ||
537 | </para> | ||
538 | |||
539 | <para>Other hardware working in the "gadget" framework includes: | ||
540 | Intel's PXA 25x and IXP42x series processors | ||
541 | (<filename>pxa2xx_udc</filename>), | ||
542 | Toshiba TC86c001 "Goku-S" (<filename>goku_udc</filename>), | ||
543 | Renesas SH7705/7727 (<filename>sh_udc</filename>), | ||
544 | MediaQ 11xx (<filename>mq11xx_udc</filename>), | ||
545 | Hynix HMS30C7202 (<filename>h7202_udc</filename>), | ||
546 | National 9303/4 (<filename>n9604_udc</filename>), | ||
547 | Texas Instruments OMAP (<filename>omap_udc</filename>), | ||
548 | Sharp LH7A40x (<filename>lh7a40x_udc</filename>), | ||
549 | and more. | ||
550 | Most of those are full speed controllers. | ||
551 | </para> | ||
552 | |||
553 | <para>At this writing, there are people at work on drivers in | ||
554 | this framework for several other USB device controllers, | ||
555 | with plans to make many of them be widely available. | ||
556 | </para> | ||
557 | |||
558 | <!-- !Edrivers/usb/gadget/net2280.c --> | ||
559 | |||
560 | <para>A partial USB simulator, | ||
561 | the <filename>dummy_hcd</filename> driver, is available. | ||
562 | It can act like a net2280, a pxa25x, or an sa11x0 in terms | ||
563 | of available endpoints and device speeds; and it simulates | ||
564 | control, bulk, and to some extent interrupt transfers. | ||
565 | That lets you develop some parts of a gadget driver on a normal PC, | ||
566 | without any special hardware, and perhaps with the assistance | ||
567 | of tools such as GDB running with User Mode Linux. | ||
568 | At least one person has expressed interest in adapting that | ||
569 | approach, hooking it up to a simulator for a microcontroller. | ||
570 | Such simulators can help debug subsystems where the runtime hardware | ||
571 | is unfriendly to software development, or is not yet available. | ||
572 | </para> | ||
573 | |||
574 | <para>Support for other controllers is expected to be developed | ||
575 | and contributed | ||
576 | over time, as this driver framework evolves. | ||
577 | </para> | ||
578 | |||
579 | </chapter> | ||
580 | |||
581 | <chapter id="gadget"><title>Gadget Drivers</title> | ||
582 | |||
583 | <para>In addition to <emphasis>Gadget Zero</emphasis> | ||
584 | (used primarily for testing and development with drivers | ||
585 | for usb controller hardware), other gadget drivers exist. | ||
586 | </para> | ||
587 | |||
588 | <para>There's an <emphasis>ethernet</emphasis> gadget | ||
589 | driver, which implements one of the most useful | ||
590 | <emphasis>Communications Device Class</emphasis> (CDC) models. | ||
591 | One of the standards for cable modem interoperability even | ||
592 | specifies the use of this ethernet model as one of two | ||
593 | mandatory options. | ||
594 | Gadgets using this code look to a USB host as if they're | ||
595 | an Ethernet adapter. | ||
596 | It provides access to a network where the gadget's CPU is one host, | ||
597 | which could easily be bridging, routing, or firewalling | ||
598 | access to other networks. | ||
599 | Since some hardware can't fully implement the CDC Ethernet | ||
600 | requirements, this driver also implements a "good parts only" | ||
601 | subset of CDC Ethernet. | ||
602 | (That subset doesn't advertise itself as CDC Ethernet, | ||
603 | to avoid creating problems.) | ||
604 | </para> | ||
605 | |||
606 | <para>Support for Microsoft's <emphasis>RNDIS</emphasis> | ||
607 | protocol has been contributed by Pengutronix and Auerswald GmbH. | ||
608 | This is like CDC Ethernet, but it runs on more slightly USB hardware | ||
609 | (but less than the CDC subset). | ||
610 | However, its main claim to fame is being able to connect directly to | ||
611 | recent versions of Windows, using drivers that Microsoft bundles | ||
612 | and supports, making it much simpler to network with Windows. | ||
613 | </para> | ||
614 | |||
615 | <para>There is also support for user mode gadget drivers, | ||
616 | using <emphasis>gadgetfs</emphasis>. | ||
617 | This provides a <emphasis>User Mode API</emphasis> that presents | ||
618 | each endpoint as a single file descriptor. I/O is done using | ||
619 | normal <emphasis>read()</emphasis> and <emphasis>read()</emphasis> calls. | ||
620 | Familiar tools like GDB and pthreads can be used to | ||
621 | develop and debug user mode drivers, so that once a robust | ||
622 | controller driver is available many applications for it | ||
623 | won't require new kernel mode software. | ||
624 | Linux 2.6 <emphasis>Async I/O (AIO)</emphasis> | ||
625 | support is available, so that user mode software | ||
626 | can stream data with only slightly more overhead | ||
627 | than a kernel driver. | ||
628 | </para> | ||
629 | |||
630 | <para>There's a USB Mass Storage class driver, which provides | ||
631 | a different solution for interoperability with systems such | ||
632 | as MS-Windows and MacOS. | ||
633 | That <emphasis>File-backed Storage</emphasis> driver uses a | ||
634 | file or block device as backing store for a drive, | ||
635 | like the <filename>loop</filename> driver. | ||
636 | The USB host uses the BBB, CB, or CBI versions of the mass | ||
637 | storage class specification, using transparent SCSI commands | ||
638 | to access the data from the backing store. | ||
639 | </para> | ||
640 | |||
641 | <para>There's a "serial line" driver, useful for TTY style | ||
642 | operation over USB. | ||
643 | The latest version of that driver supports CDC ACM style | ||
644 | operation, like a USB modem, and so on most hardware it can | ||
645 | interoperate easily with MS-Windows. | ||
646 | One interesting use of that driver is in boot firmware (like a BIOS), | ||
647 | which can sometimes use that model with very small systems without | ||
648 | real serial lines. | ||
649 | </para> | ||
650 | |||
651 | <para>Support for other kinds of gadget is expected to | ||
652 | be developed and contributed | ||
653 | over time, as this driver framework evolves. | ||
654 | </para> | ||
655 | |||
656 | </chapter> | ||
657 | |||
658 | <chapter id="otg"><title>USB On-The-GO (OTG)</title> | ||
659 | |||
660 | <para>USB OTG support on Linux 2.6 was initially developed | ||
661 | by Texas Instruments for | ||
662 | <ulink url="http://www.omap.com">OMAP</ulink> 16xx and 17xx | ||
663 | series processors. | ||
664 | Other OTG systems should work in similar ways, but the | ||
665 | hardware level details could be very different. | ||
666 | </para> | ||
667 | |||
668 | <para>Systems need specialized hardware support to implement OTG, | ||
669 | notably including a special <emphasis>Mini-AB</emphasis> jack | ||
670 | and associated transciever to support <emphasis>Dual-Role</emphasis> | ||
671 | operation: | ||
672 | they can act either as a host, using the standard | ||
673 | Linux-USB host side driver stack, | ||
674 | or as a peripheral, using this "gadget" framework. | ||
675 | To do that, the system software relies on small additions | ||
676 | to those programming interfaces, | ||
677 | and on a new internal component (here called an "OTG Controller") | ||
678 | affecting which driver stack connects to the OTG port. | ||
679 | In each role, the system can re-use the existing pool of | ||
680 | hardware-neutral drivers, layered on top of the controller | ||
681 | driver interfaces (<emphasis>usb_bus</emphasis> or | ||
682 | <emphasis>usb_gadget</emphasis>). | ||
683 | Such drivers need at most minor changes, and most of the calls | ||
684 | added to support OTG can also benefit non-OTG products. | ||
685 | </para> | ||
686 | |||
687 | <itemizedlist> | ||
688 | <listitem><para>Gadget drivers test the <emphasis>is_otg</emphasis> | ||
689 | flag, and use it to determine whether or not to include | ||
690 | an OTG descriptor in each of their configurations. | ||
691 | </para></listitem> | ||
692 | <listitem><para>Gadget drivers may need changes to support the | ||
693 | two new OTG protocols, exposed in new gadget attributes | ||
694 | such as <emphasis>b_hnp_enable</emphasis> flag. | ||
695 | HNP support should be reported through a user interface | ||
696 | (two LEDs could suffice), and is triggered in some cases | ||
697 | when the host suspends the peripheral. | ||
698 | SRP support can be user-initiated just like remote wakeup, | ||
699 | probably by pressing the same button. | ||
700 | </para></listitem> | ||
701 | <listitem><para>On the host side, USB device drivers need | ||
702 | to be taught to trigger HNP at appropriate moments, using | ||
703 | <function>usb_suspend_device()</function>. | ||
704 | That also conserves battery power, which is useful even | ||
705 | for non-OTG configurations. | ||
706 | </para></listitem> | ||
707 | <listitem><para>Also on the host side, a driver must support the | ||
708 | OTG "Targeted Peripheral List". That's just a whitelist, | ||
709 | used to reject peripherals not supported with a given | ||
710 | Linux OTG host. | ||
711 | <emphasis>This whitelist is product-specific; | ||
712 | each product must modify <filename>otg_whitelist.h</filename> | ||
713 | to match its interoperability specification. | ||
714 | </emphasis> | ||
715 | </para> | ||
716 | <para>Non-OTG Linux hosts, like PCs and workstations, | ||
717 | normally have some solution for adding drivers, so that | ||
718 | peripherals that aren't recognized can eventually be supported. | ||
719 | That approach is unreasonable for consumer products that may | ||
720 | never have their firmware upgraded, and where it's usually | ||
721 | unrealistic to expect traditional PC/workstation/server kinds | ||
722 | of support model to work. | ||
723 | For example, it's often impractical to change device firmware | ||
724 | once the product has been distributed, so driver bugs can't | ||
725 | normally be fixed if they're found after shipment. | ||
726 | </para></listitem> | ||
727 | </itemizedlist> | ||
728 | |||
729 | <para> | ||
730 | Additional changes are needed below those hardware-neutral | ||
731 | <emphasis>usb_bus</emphasis> and <emphasis>usb_gadget</emphasis> | ||
732 | driver interfaces; those aren't discussed here in any detail. | ||
733 | Those affect the hardware-specific code for each USB Host or Peripheral | ||
734 | controller, and how the HCD initializes (since OTG can be active only | ||
735 | on a single port). | ||
736 | They also involve what may be called an <emphasis>OTG Controller | ||
737 | Driver</emphasis>, managing the OTG transceiver and the OTG state | ||
738 | machine logic as well as much of the root hub behavior for the | ||
739 | OTG port. | ||
740 | The OTG controller driver needs to activate and deactivate USB | ||
741 | controllers depending on the relevant device role. | ||
742 | Some related changes were needed inside usbcore, so that it | ||
743 | can identify OTG-capable devices and respond appropriately | ||
744 | to HNP or SRP protocols. | ||
745 | </para> | ||
746 | |||
747 | </chapter> | ||
748 | |||
749 | </book> | ||
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