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25 USB Support for PIP405 and MIP405 (UHCI)
26 ========================================
28 The USB support is implemented on the base of the UHCI Host
31 Currently supported are USB Hubs, USB Keyboards, USB Floppys, USB
32 flash sticks and USB network adaptors.
33 Tested with a TEAC Floppy TEAC FD-05PUB and Chicony KU-8933 Keyboard.
38 The USB (at least the USB UHCI) needs a frame list (4k), transfer
39 descripor and queue headers which are all located in the main memory.
40 The UHCI allocates every milisecond the PCI bus and reads the current
41 frame pointer. This may cause to crash the OS during boot. So the USB
42 _MUST_ be stopped during OS boot. This is the reason, why the USB is
43 NOT automatically started during start-up. If someone needs the USB
44 he has to start it and should therefore be aware that he had to stop
45 it before booting the OS.
47 For USB keyboards this can be done by a script which is automatically
48 started after the U-Boot is up and running. To boot an OS with a an
49 USB keyboard another script is necessary, which first disables the
50 USB and then executes the boot command. If the boot command fails,
51 the script can reenable the USB kbd.
55 - usb reset: (re)starts the USB. All USB devices will be
56 initialized and a device tree is build for them.
57 - usb tree: shows all USB devices in a tree like display
58 - usb info [dev]: shows all USB infos of the device dev, or of all
60 - usb stop [f]: stops the USB. If f==1 the USB will also stop if
61 an USB keyboard is assigned as stdin. The stdin
62 is then switched to serial input.
64 - usb scan: scans the USB for storage devices.The USB must be
65 running for this command (usb start)
66 - usb device [dev]: show or set current USB storage device
67 - usb part [dev]: print partition table of one or all USB storage
69 - usb read addr blk# cnt:
70 read `cnt' blocks starting at block `blk#'to
72 - usbboot addr dev:part:
77 CONFIG_CMD_USB enables basic USB support and the usb command
78 CONFIG_USB_UHCI defines the lowlevel part.A lowlevel part must be defined
79 if using CONFIG_CMD_USB
80 CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD enables the USB Keyboard
81 CONFIG_USB_STORAGE enables the USB storage devices
82 CONFIG_USB_HOST_ETHER enables USB ethernet adapter support
88 If you have a supported USB Ethernet adapter you can use it in U-Boot
89 to obtain an IP address and load a kernel from a network server.
91 Note: USB Host Networking is not the same as making your board act as a USB
92 client. In that case your board is pretending to be an Ethernet adapter
93 and will appear as a network interface to an attached computer. In that
94 case the connection is via a USB cable with the computer acting as the host.
96 With USB Host Networking, your board is the USB host. It controls the
97 Ethernet adapter to which it is directly connected and the connection to
98 the outside world is your adapter's Ethernet cable. Your board becomes an
99 independent network device, able to connect and perform network operations
100 independently of your computer.
106 Currently supported devices are listed in the drivers according to
107 their vendor and product IDs. You can check your device by connecting it
108 to a Linux machine and typing 'lsusb'. The drivers are in
111 For example this lsusb output line shows a device with Vendor ID 0x0x95
112 and product ID 0x7720:
114 Bus 002 Device 010: ID 0b95:7720 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88772
116 If you look at drivers/usb/eth/asix.c you will see this line within the
117 supported device list, so we know this adapter is supported.
119 { 0x0b95, 0x7720 }, /* Trendnet TU2-ET100 V3.0R */
121 If your adapter is not listed there is a still a chance that it will
122 work. Try looking up the manufacturer of the chip inside your adapter.
123 or take the adapter apart and look for chip markings. Then add a line
124 for your vendor/product ID into the table of the appropriate driver,
125 build U-Boot and see if it works. If not then there might be differences
126 between the chip in your adapter and the driver. You could try to get a
127 datasheet for your device and add support for it to U-Boot. This is not
128 particularly difficult - you only need to provide support for four basic
129 functions: init, halt, send and recv.
132 Enabling USB Host Networking
133 ----------------------------
135 The normal U-Boot commands are used with USB networking, but you must
136 start USB first. For example:
139 setenv bootfile /tftpboot/uImage
143 To enable USB Host Ethernet in U-Boot, your platform must of course
144 support USB with CONFIG_CMD_USB enabled and working. You will need to
145 add some config settings to your board header file:
147 #define CONFIG_USB_HOST_ETHER /* Enable USB Ethernet adapters */
148 #define CONFIG_USB_ETHER_ASIX /* Asix, or whatever driver(s) you want */
150 As with built-in networking, you will also want to enable some network
151 commands, for example:
153 #define CONFIG_CMD_NET
154 #define CONFIG_CMD_PING
155 #define CONFIG_CMD_DHCP
157 and some bootp options, which tell your board to obtain its subnet,
158 gateway IP, host name and boot path from the bootp/dhcp server. These
159 settings should start you off:
161 #define CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
162 #define CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
163 #define CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
164 #define CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
166 You can also set the default IP address of your board and the server
167 as well as the default file to load when a 'bootp' command is issued.
168 All of these can be obtained from the bootp server if not set.
170 #define CONFIG_IPADDR 10.0.0.2 (replace with your value)
171 #define CONFIG_SERVERIP 10.0.0.1 (replace with your value)
172 #define CONFIG_BOOTFILE "uImage"
175 The 'usb start' command should identify the adapter something like this:
180 scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
181 scanning bus for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
182 scanning bus for ethernet devices... 1 Ethernet Device(s) found
186 You can see that it found an ethernet device and we can print out the
187 device name (asx0 in this case).
189 Then 'bootp' or 'dhcp' should use it to obtain an IP address from DHCP,
190 perhaps something like this:
193 Waiting for Ethernet connection... done.
196 DHCP client bound to address 172.22.73.81
198 TFTP from server 172.22.72.144; our IP address is 172.22.73.81
199 Filename '/tftpboot/uImage-sjg-seaboard-261347'.
200 Load address: 0x40c000
201 Loading: #################################################################
202 #################################################################
203 #################################################################
204 ################################################
206 Bytes transferred = 3557464 (364858 hex)
210 Another way of doing this is to issue a tftp command, which will cause the
211 bootp to happen automatically.
217 Most Ethernet dongles have a built-in MAC address which is unique in the
218 world. This is important so that devices on the network can be
219 distinguised from each other. MAC address conflicts are evil and
220 generally result in strange and eratic behaviour.
222 Some boards have USB Ethernet chips on-board, and these sometimes do not
223 have an assigned MAC address. In this case it is up to you to assign
224 one which is unique. You should obtain a valid MAC address from a range
225 assigned to you before you ship the product.
227 Built-in Ethernet adapters support setting the MAC address by means of
228 an ethaddr environment variable for each interface (ethaddr, eth1addr,
229 eth2addr). There is similar support on the USB network side, using the
230 names usbethaddr, usbeth1addr, etc. They are kept separate since we
231 don't want a USB device taking the MAC address of a built-in device or
234 So if your USB Ethernet chip doesn't have a MAC address available then
235 you must set usbethaddr to a suitable MAC address. At the time of
236 writing this functionality is only supported by the SMSC driver.