19 USB Driver Design Guidelines
There are several categories of USB drivers that cooperate to provide the USB driver stack in a platform. The table below lists these USB drivers.
###### Table 30-Classes of USB drivers | **Class of driver** | **Description** | | -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | USB host controller driver | Consumes PCI I/O Protocol on the USB host controller handle and produces the USB2 Host Controller Protocol. | | USB bus driver | Consumes the USB2 Host Controller Protocol and produces a child handle for each USB controller on the USB bus. Installs the Device Path Protocol and USB I/O Protocol onto each child handle. | | USB device driver | Consumes the USB I/O Protocol and produces an I/O abstraction that provides services for the console devices and boot devices required to boot an EFI-conformant operating system. | This chapter shows how to write host controller drivers and USB device drivers. USB drivers must follow all of the general design guidelines described in _Chapter 4_ of this guide. In addition, any USB host controllers that are PCI controllers must also follow the PCI-specific design guidelines (see _Chapter 18_). ********** **Note:** _USB device drivers do not typically include HII functionality because they do not have configurable information. For example, USB device drivers are typically for hot-plug devices._ ********** The figure below shows an example of a USB driver stack and the protocols the USB drivers consume and produce. Because the USB hub is a special kind of device that simply acts as a signal repeater, it is not included in Figure 21.
In this example, the platform hardware provides a single USB host controller on the PCI bus. The PCI bus driver produces a handle with EFI_DEVICE_PATH_PROTOCOL and EFI_PCI_IO_PROTOCOL installed for this USB host controller. The USB host controller driver then consumes EFI_PCI_IO_PROTOCOL on that USB host controller device handle and installs the EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL onto the same handle.
The USB bus driver consumes the services of EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL. It uses these services to enumerate the USB bus. In this example, the USB bus driver detects a USB keyboard, a USB mouse, and a USB mass storage device. As a result, the USB bus driver creates three child handles and installs the EFI_DEVICE_PATH_PROTOCOL and EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL onto each of those handles.
The USB mouse driver consumes the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL and produces the EFI_SIMPLE_POINTER_PROTOCOL. The USB keyboard driver consumes the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL to produce the EFI_SIMPLE_TEXT_INPUT_PROTOCOL. The USB mass storage driver consumes the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL to produce the EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL.
The protocol interfaces for the USB2 Host Controller Protocol and the USB I/O Protocol are shown below in the following two examples.
typedef struct _EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL;////// The EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL provides USB host controller management, basic/// data transactions over a USB bus, and USB root hub access. A device driver/// that wishes to manage a USB bus in a system retrieves the EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL/// instance that is associated with the USB bus to be managed. A device handle/// for a USB host controller minimally contains an EFI_DEVICE_PATH_PROTOCOL/// instance, and an EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL instance.///struct _EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL {EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_GET_CAPABILITY GetCapability;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_RESET Reset;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_GET_STATE GetState;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_SET_STATE SetState;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_CONTROL_TRANSFER ControlTransfer;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_BULK_TRANSFER BulkTransfer;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_ASYNC_INTERRUPT_TRANSFER AsyncInterruptTransfer;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_SYNC_INTERRUPT_TRANSFER SyncInterruptTransfer;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_ISOCHRONOUS_TRANSFER IsochronousTransfer;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_ASYNC_ISOCHRONOUS_TRANSFER AsyncIsochronousTransfer;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_GET_ROOTHUB_PORT_STATUS GetRootHubPortStatus;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_SET_ROOTHUB_PORT_FEATURE SetRootHubPortFeature;EFI_USB2_HC_PROTOCOL_CLEAR_ROOTHUB_PORT_FEATURE ClearRootHubPortFeature;​////// The major revision number of the USB host controller. The revision/// information indicates the release of the Universal Serial Bus Specification/// with which the host controller is compliant.///UINT16 MajorRevision;​////// The minor revision number of the USB host controller. The revision/// information indicates the release of the Universal Serial Bus Specification/// with which the host controller is compliant.///UINT16 MinorRevision;};
typedef struct _EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL;​////// The EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL provides four basic transfers types described/// in the USB 1.1 Specification. These include control transfer, interrupt/// transfer, bulk transfer and isochronous transfer. The EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL/// also provides some basic USB device/controller management and configuration/// interfaces. A USB device driver uses the services of this protocol to manage/// USB devices.///struct _EFI_USB_IO_PROTOCOL {//// IO transfer//EFI_USB_IO_CONTROL_TRANSFER UsbControlTransfer;EFI_USB_IO_BULK_TRANSFER UsbBulkTransfer;EFI_USB_IO_ASYNC_INTERRUPT_TRANSFER UsbAsyncInterruptTransfer;EFI_USB_IO_SYNC_INTERRUPT_TRANSFER UsbSyncInterruptTransfer;EFI_USB_IO_ISOCHRONOUS_TRANSFER UsbIsochronousTransfer;EFI_USB_IO_ASYNC_ISOCHRONOUS_TRANSFER UsbAsyncIsochronousTransfer;​//// Common device request//EFI_USB_IO_GET_DEVICE_DESCRIPTOR UsbGetDeviceDescriptor;EFI_USB_IO_GET_CONFIG_DESCRIPTOR UsbGetConfigDescriptor;EFI_USB_IO_GET_INTERFACE_DESCRIPTOR UsbGetInterfaceDescriptor;EFI_USB_IO_GET_ENDPOINT_DESCRIPTOR UsbGetEndpointDescriptor;EFI_USB_IO_GET_STRING_DESCRIPTOR UsbGetStringDescriptor;EFI_USB_IO_GET_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGE UsbGetSupportedLanguages;​//// Reset controller's parent port//EFI_USB_IO_PORT_RESET UsbPortReset;};
