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EHCI(4)			    Kernel Interfaces Manual		       EHCI(4)

NAME
       ehci -- USB Enhanced Host Controller driver

SYNOPSIS
       device ehci

DESCRIPTION
       The  ehci  driver provides support for the USB Enhanced Host Controller
       Interface, which	is used	by USB 2.0 controllers.

       EHCI controllers	are peculiar in	that they can only handle the USB  2.0
       protocol.   This	 means	that  they normally have one or	more companion
       controllers (i.e., ohci(4) or uhci(4)) handling USB 1.x devices.	  Con-
       sequently  each USB connector is	electrically connected to two USB con-
       trollers.  The handling of this is totally automatic, but  can  be  no-
       ticed  since USB	1.x and	USB 2.0	devices	plugged	in to the same connec-
       tor appear to connect to	different USB buses.

LOADER TUNABLES
       When the	kernel has been	compiled with options USB_DEBUG, some tunables
       become available	that affect the	behavior of ehci.  These tunables  can
       be  set	at the loader(8) prompt	before booting the kernel or stored in
       loader.conf(5).

       hw.usb.ehci.lostintrbug
	       This tunable enables the	lost  interrupt	 quirk.	  The  default
	       value is	0 (off).

       hw.usb.ehci.iaadbug
	       This  tunable  enables  the  EHCI  doorbell quirk.  The default
	       value is	0 (off).

       hw.usb.ehci.no_hs
	       This tunable disables USB devices  to  attach  like  HIGH-speed
	       ones and	will force all attached	devices	to attach to the FULL-
	       or  LOW-speed  companion	 controller.   The  default value is 0
	       (off).

SYSCTL VARIABLES
       The following variables are available as	both sysctl(8)	variables  and
       loader(8) tunables:

       hw.usb.ehci.debug
	       Debug  output  level,  where 0 is debugging disabled and	larger
	       values increase debug message verbosity.	 Default is 0.

SEE ALSO
       ohci(4),	uhci(4), usb(4), xhci(4)

HISTORY
       The ehci	device driver first appeared in	FreeBSD	5.1.

FreeBSD	14.3			April 24, 2018			       EHCI(4)

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