NAME
ehci —
USB Enhanced Host Controller
Interface
SYNOPSIS
ehci* at cardbus?
ehci* at pci?
usb* at ehci?
DESCRIPTION
The ehci driver provides support for the
USB Enhanced Host Controller Interface, which provides an interface to
usb(4) devices.
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. Consequently each USB connector is electrically connected to two USB controllers. The handling of this is totally automatic, but can be noticed since USB 1.x and USB 2.0 devices plugged in to the same connector appear to connect to different USB buses.