1.\" $NetBSD: ehci.4,v 1.11 2004/06/22 09:12:48 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation 7.\" by Lennart Augustsson. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the NetBSD 20.\" Foundation, Inc. and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of The NetBSD Foundation nor the names of its 22.\" contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 23.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. AND CONTRIBUTORS 26.\" ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED 27.\" TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 28.\" PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 29.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 30.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 31.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 32.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 33.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 34.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 35.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.Dd July 4, 2010 38.Dt EHCI 4 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm ehci 42.Nd USB Enhanced Host Controller driver 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.Cd "device ehci" 45.Sh DESCRIPTION 46The 47.Nm 48driver provides support for the USB Enhanced Host Controller Interface, 49which is used by USB 2.0 controllers. 50.Pp 51EHCI controllers are peculiar in that they can only handle the USB 2.0 52protocol. 53This means that they normally have one or more companion controllers 54(i.e., 55.Xr ohci 4 56or 57.Xr uhci 4 ) 58handling USB 1.x devices. 59Consequently each USB connector is electrically connected to two 60USB controllers. 61The handling of this is totally automatic, but can be noticed since 62USB 1.x and USB 2.0 devices plugged into the same connector appear 63to connect to different USB busses. 64.Pp 65The 66.Nm 67driver is automatically loaded upon boot. 68To disable this behavior temporarily, the 69.Va ehci_load 70variable can be unset at the loader prompt (see 71.Xr loader 8 ) . 72To disable it permanently, the 73.Va hint.ehci.0.disabled 74tunable can be set to 1 in 75.Pa /boot/loader.conf . 76.Sh SEE ALSO 77.Xr cardbus 4 , 78.Xr ohci 4 , 79.Xr pci 4 , 80.Xr uhci 4 , 81.Xr usb 4 82.Sh HISTORY 83The 84.Nm 85driver appeared in 86.Dx 1.0 . 87.Sh BUGS 88There is no support (yet) for interrupt or isochronous transfers. 89