# This is a BitKeeper generated patch for the following project: # Project Name: Linux kernel tree # This patch format is intended for GNU patch command version 2.5 or higher. # This patch includes the following deltas: # ChangeSet 1.565 -> 1.566 # Documentation/usb/ehci.txt 1.1 -> 1.2 # # The following is the BitKeeper ChangeSet Log # -------------------------------------------- # 02/04/26 david-b@pacbell.net 1.566 # [PATCH] PATCH 2.5.10 ehci.txt # # USB ehci documentation update # # It mostly updates the description of the EHCI driver to point out # that several non-NEC implementations are now expected to work, # and that (high speed) ISO is supported. # -------------------------------------------- # diff -Nru a/Documentation/usb/ehci.txt b/Documentation/usb/ehci.txt --- a/Documentation/usb/ehci.txt Fri Apr 26 16:05:40 2002 +++ b/Documentation/usb/ehci.txt Fri Apr 26 16:05:40 2002 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -18-Dec-2001 +26-Apr-2002 The EHCI driver is used to talk to high speed USB 2.0 devices using USB 2.0-capable host controller hardware. The USB 2.0 standard is @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ (TT) in the hub, which turns low or full speed transactions into high speed "split transactions" that don't waste transfer bandwidth. +At this writing, this driver has been seen to work with implementations +of EHCI from (in alphabetical order): Intel, NEC, Philips, and VIA. + At this writing, high speed devices are finally beginning to appear. While usb-storage devices have been available for some time (working quite speedily on the 2.4 version of this driver), hubs have only @@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ FUNCTIONALITY This driver is regularly tested on x86 hardware, and has also been -used on PPC hardware so big/little endianneess issues should be gone. +used on PPC hardware so big/little endianness issues should be gone. It's believed to do all the right PCI magic so that I/O works even on systems with interesting DMA mapping issues. @@ -51,11 +54,13 @@ connecting USB 1.1 hubs, keyboards, and mice to USB 2.0 hubs won't work. Connect them to USB 1.1 hubs, or to a root hub. -Isochronous (ISO) transfer support is not yet working. No production +Isochronous (ISO) transfer support is also newly functional. No production high speed devices are available which would need it (though high quality webcams are in the works!). Note that split transaction support for ISO transfers can't share much code with the code for high speed ISO transfers, -since EHCI represents these with a different data structure. +since EHCI represents these with a different data structure. So for now, +most USB audio and video devices have the same restrictions as hubs, mice, +and keyboards: don't connect them using high speed USB hubs. The EHCI root hub code should hand off USB 1.1 devices to its companion controller. This driver doesn't need to know anything about those @@ -99,6 +104,8 @@ but they may want to check for "usb_device->speed == USB_SPEED_HIGH". High speed devices can do things that full speed (or low speed) ones can't, such as "high bandwidth" periodic (interrupt or ISO) transfers. +Also, some values in device descriptors (such as polling intervals for +periodic transfers) use different encodings when operating at high speed. PERFORMANCE