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   1/*
   2 * (C) Copyright 2001
   3 * Denis Peter, MPL AG Switzerland
   4 *
   5 * SPDX-License-Identifier:     GPL-2.0+
   6 */
   7
   8USB Support for PIP405 and MIP405 (UHCI)
   9========================================
  10
  11The USB support is implemented on the base of the UHCI Host
  12controller.
  13
  14Currently supported are USB Hubs, USB Keyboards, USB Floppys, USB
  15flash sticks and USB network adaptors.
  16Tested with a TEAC Floppy TEAC FD-05PUB and Chicony KU-8933 Keyboard.
  17
  18How it works:
  19-------------
  20
  21The USB (at least the USB UHCI) needs a frame list (4k), transfer
  22descripor and queue headers which are all located in the main memory.
  23The UHCI allocates every milisecond the PCI bus and reads the current
  24frame pointer. This may cause to crash the OS during boot. So the USB
  25_MUST_ be stopped during OS boot. This is the reason, why the USB is
  26NOT automatically started during start-up. If someone needs the USB
  27he has to start it and should therefore be aware that he had to stop
  28it before booting the OS.
  29
  30For USB keyboards this can be done by a script which is automatically
  31started after the U-Boot is up and running. To boot an OS with a an
  32USB keyboard another script is necessary, which first disables the
  33USB and then executes the boot command. If the boot command fails,
  34the script can reenable the USB kbd.
  35
  36Common USB Commands:
  37- usb start:
  38- usb reset:        (re)starts the USB. All USB devices will be
  39                    initialized and a device tree is build for them.
  40- usb tree:         shows all USB devices in a tree like display
  41- usb info [dev]:   shows all USB infos of the device dev, or of all
  42                    the devices
  43- usb stop [f]:     stops the USB. If f==1 the USB will also stop if
  44                    an USB keyboard is assigned as stdin. The stdin
  45                    is then switched to serial input.
  46Storage USB Commands:
  47- usb scan:         scans the USB for storage devices.The USB must be
  48                    running for this command (usb start)
  49- usb device [dev]: show or set current USB storage device
  50- usb part [dev]:   print partition table of one or all USB storage
  51                    devices
  52- usb read addr blk# cnt:
  53                    read `cnt' blocks starting at block `blk#'to
  54                    memory address `addr'
  55- usbboot addr dev:part:
  56                    boot from USB device
  57
  58Config Switches:
  59----------------
  60CONFIG_CMD_USB      enables basic USB support and the usb command
  61CONFIG_USB_UHCI     defines the lowlevel part.A lowlevel part must be defined
  62                    if using CONFIG_CMD_USB
  63CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD enables the USB Keyboard
  64CONFIG_USB_STORAGE  enables the USB storage devices
  65CONFIG_USB_HOST_ETHER   enables USB ethernet adapter support
  66
  67
  68USB Host Networking
  69===================
  70
  71If you have a supported USB Ethernet adapter you can use it in U-Boot
  72to obtain an IP address and load a kernel from a network server.
  73
  74Note: USB Host Networking is not the same as making your board act as a USB
  75client. In that case your board is pretending to be an Ethernet adapter
  76and will appear as a network interface to an attached computer. In that
  77case the connection is via a USB cable with the computer acting as the host.
  78
  79With USB Host Networking, your board is the USB host. It controls the
  80Ethernet adapter to which it is directly connected and the connection to
  81the outside world is your adapter's Ethernet cable. Your board becomes an
  82independent network device, able to connect and perform network operations
  83independently of your computer.
  84
  85
  86Device support
  87--------------
  88
  89Currently supported devices are listed in the drivers according to
  90their vendor and product IDs. You can check your device by connecting it
  91to a Linux machine and typing 'lsusb'. The drivers are in
  92drivers/usb/eth.
  93
  94For example this lsusb output line shows a device with Vendor ID 0x0x95
  95and product ID 0x7720:
  96
  97Bus 002 Device 010: ID 0b95:7720 ASIX Electronics Corp. AX88772
  98
  99If you look at drivers/usb/eth/asix.c you will see this line within the
 100supported device list, so we know this adapter is supported.
 101
 102        { 0x0b95, 0x7720 },     /* Trendnet TU2-ET100 V3.0R */
 103
 104If your adapter is not listed there is a still a chance that it will
 105work. Try looking up the manufacturer of the chip inside your adapter.
 106or take the adapter apart and look for chip markings. Then add a line
 107for your vendor/product ID into the table of the appropriate driver,
 108build U-Boot and see if it works. If not then there might be differences
 109between the chip in your adapter and the driver. You could try to get a
 110datasheet for your device and add support for it to U-Boot. This is not
 111particularly difficult - you only need to provide support for four basic
 112functions: init, halt, send and recv.
 113
 114
 115Enabling USB Host Networking
 116----------------------------
 117
 118The normal U-Boot commands are used with USB networking, but you must
 119start USB first. For example:
 120
 121usb start
 122setenv bootfile /tftpboot/uImage
 123bootp
 124
 125
 126To enable USB Host Ethernet in U-Boot, your platform must of course
 127support USB with CONFIG_CMD_USB enabled and working. You will need to
 128add some config settings to your board header file:
 129
 130#define CONFIG_CMD_USB          /* the 'usb' interactive command */
 131#define CONFIG_USB_HOST_ETHER   /* Enable USB Ethernet adapters */
 132
 133and one or more of the following for individual adapter hardware:
 134
 135#define CONFIG_USB_ETHER_ASIX
 136#define CONFIG_USB_ETHER_MCS7830
 137#define CONFIG_USB_ETHER_SMSC95XX
 138
 139As with built-in networking, you will also want to enable some network
 140commands, for example:
 141
 142#define CONFIG_CMD_NET
 143#define CONFIG_CMD_PING
 144#define CONFIG_CMD_DHCP
 145
 146and some bootp options, which tell your board to obtain its subnet,
 147gateway IP, host name and boot path from the bootp/dhcp server. These
 148settings should start you off:
 149
 150#define CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
 151#define CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
 152#define CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
 153#define CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
 154
 155You can also set the default IP address of your board and the server
 156as well as the default file to load when a 'bootp' command is issued.
 157However note that encoding these individual network settings into a
 158common exectuable is discouraged, as it leads to potential conflicts,
 159and all the parameters can either get stored in the board's external
 160environment, or get obtained from the bootp server if not set.
 161
 162#define CONFIG_IPADDR           10.0.0.2  (replace with your value)
 163#define CONFIG_SERVERIP         10.0.0.1  (replace with your value)
 164#define CONFIG_BOOTFILE         "uImage"
 165
 166
 167The 'usb start' command should identify the adapter something like this:
 168
 169CrOS> usb start
 170(Re)start USB...
 171USB EHCI 1.00
 172scanning bus for devices... 3 USB Device(s) found
 173       scanning bus for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
 174       scanning bus for ethernet devices... 1 Ethernet Device(s) found
 175CrOS> print ethact
 176ethact=asx0
 177
 178You can see that it found an ethernet device and we can print out the
 179device name (asx0 in this case).
 180
 181Then 'bootp' or 'dhcp' should use it to obtain an IP address from DHCP,
 182perhaps something like this:
 183
 184CrOS> bootp
 185Waiting for Ethernet connection... done.
 186BOOTP broadcast 1
 187BOOTP broadcast 2
 188DHCP client bound to address 172.22.73.81
 189Using asx0 device
 190TFTP from server 172.22.72.144; our IP address is 172.22.73.81
 191Filename '/tftpboot/uImage-sjg-seaboard-261347'.
 192Load address: 0x40c000
 193Loading: #################################################################
 194         #################################################################
 195         #################################################################
 196         ################################################
 197done
 198Bytes transferred = 3557464 (364858 hex)
 199CrOS>
 200
 201
 202Another way of doing this is to issue a tftp command, which will cause the
 203bootp to happen automatically.
 204
 205
 206MAC Addresses
 207-------------
 208
 209Most Ethernet dongles have a built-in MAC address which is unique in the
 210world. This is important so that devices on the network can be
 211distinguised from each other. MAC address conflicts are evil and
 212generally result in strange and eratic behaviour.
 213
 214Some boards have USB Ethernet chips on-board, and these sometimes do not
 215have an assigned MAC address. In this case it is up to you to assign
 216one which is unique. You should obtain a valid MAC address from a range
 217assigned to you before you ship the product.
 218
 219Built-in Ethernet adapters support setting the MAC address by means of
 220an ethaddr environment variable for each interface (ethaddr, eth1addr,
 221eth2addr). There is similar support on the USB network side, using the
 222names usbethaddr, usbeth1addr, etc. They are kept separate since we
 223don't want a USB device taking the MAC address of a built-in device or
 224vice versa.
 225
 226So if your USB Ethernet chip doesn't have a MAC address available then
 227you must set usbethaddr to a suitable MAC address. At the time of
 228writing this functionality is only supported by the SMSC driver.
 229