usbip_protocol.txt 29.6 KB
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411
===============
USB/IP protocol
===============

PRELIMINARY DRAFT, MAY CONTAIN MISTAKES!
28 Jun 2011

The USB/IP protocol follows a server/client architecture. The server exports the
USB devices and the clients imports them. The device driver for the exported
USB device runs on the client machine.

The client may ask for the list of the exported USB devices. To get the list the
client opens a TCP/IP connection towards the server, and sends an OP_REQ_DEVLIST
packet on top of the TCP/IP connection (so the actual OP_REQ_DEVLIST may be sent
in one or more pieces at the low level transport layer). The server sends back
the OP_REP_DEVLIST packet which lists the exported USB devices. Finally the
TCP/IP connection is closed.

::

 virtual host controller                                 usb host
      "client"                                           "server"
  (imports USB devices)                             (exports USB devices)
          |                                                 |
          |                  OP_REQ_DEVLIST                 |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |                  OP_REP_DEVLIST                 |
          | <---------------------------------------------- |
          |                                                 |

Once the client knows the list of exported USB devices it may decide to use one
of them. First the client opens a TCP/IP connection towards the server and
sends an OP_REQ_IMPORT packet. The server replies with OP_REP_IMPORT. If the
import was successful the TCP/IP connection remains open and will be used
to transfer the URB traffic between the client and the server. The client may
send two types of packets: the USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT to submit an URB, and
USBIP_CMD_UNLINK to unlink a previously submitted URB. The answers of the
server may be USBIP_RET_SUBMIT and USBIP_RET_UNLINK respectively.

::

 virtual host controller                                 usb host
      "client"                                           "server"
  (imports USB devices)                             (exports USB devices)
          |                                                 |
          |                  OP_REQ_IMPORT                  |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |                  OP_REP_IMPORT                  |
          | <---------------------------------------------- |
          |                                                 |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT(seqnum = n)         |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_RET_SUBMIT(seqnum = n)         |
          | <---------------------------------------------- |
          |                        .                        |
          |                        :                        |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT(seqnum = m)         |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT(seqnum = m+1)       |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT(seqnum = m+2)       |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_RET_SUBMIT(seqnum = m)         |
          | <---------------------------------------------- |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT(seqnum = m+3)       |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_RET_SUBMIT(seqnum = m+1)       |
          | <---------------------------------------------- |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT(seqnum = m+4)       |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |            USBIP_RET_SUBMIT(seqnum = m+2)       |
          | <---------------------------------------------- |
          |                        .                        |
          |                        :                        |
          |                                                 |
          |               USBIP_CMD_UNLINK                  |
          | ----------------------------------------------> |
          |                                                 |
          |               USBIP_RET_UNLINK                  |
          | <---------------------------------------------- |
          |                                                 |

The fields are in network (big endian) byte order meaning that the most significant
byte (MSB) is stored at the lowest address.


OP_REQ_DEVLIST:
	Retrieve the list of exported USB devices.

+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Offset    | Length | Value      | Description                                       |
+===========+========+============+===================================================+
| 0         | 2      | 0x0100     | Binary-coded decimal USBIP version number: v1.0.0 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 2         | 2      | 0x8005     | Command code: Retrieve the list of exported USB   |
|           |        |            | devices.                                          |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4         | 4      | 0x00000000 | Status: unused, shall be set to 0                 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+

OP_REP_DEVLIST:
	Reply with the list of exported USB devices.

+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Offset    | Length | Value      | Description                                       |
+===========+========+============+===================================================+
| 0         | 2      | 0x0100     | Binary-coded decimal USBIP version number: v1.0.0.|
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 2         | 2      | 0x0005     | Reply code: The list of exported USB devices.     |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4         | 4      | 0x00000000 | Status: 0 for OK                                  |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 8         | 4      | n          | Number of exported devices: 0 means no exported   |
|           |        |            | devices.                                          |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x0C      |        |            | From now on the exported n devices are described, |
|           |        |            | if any. If no devices are exported the message    |
|           |        |            | ends with the previous "number of exported        |
|           |        |            | devices" field.                                   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|           | 256    |            | path: Path of the device on the host exporting the|
|           |        |            | USB device, string closed with zero byte, e.g.    |
|           |        |            | "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2"   |
|           |        |            | The unused bytes shall be filled with zero        |
|           |        |            | bytes.                                            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x10C     | 32     |            | busid: Bus ID of the exported device, string      |
|           |        |            | closed with zero byte, e.g. "3-2". The unused     |
|           |        |            | bytes shall be filled with zero bytes.            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x12C     | 4      |            | busnum                                            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x130     | 4      |            | devnum                                            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x134     | 4      |            | speed                                             |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x138     | 2      |            | idVendor                                          |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13A     | 2      |            | idProduct                                         |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13C     | 2      |            | bcdDevice                                         |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13E     | 1      |            | bDeviceClass                                      |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13F     | 1      |            | bDeviceSubClass                                   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x140     | 1      |            | bDeviceProtocol                                   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x141     | 1      |            | bConfigurationValue                               |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x142     | 1      |            | bNumConfigurations                                |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x143     | 1      |            | bNumInterfaces                                    |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x144     |        | m_0        | From now on each interface is described, all      |
|           |        |            | together bNumInterfaces times, with the           |
|           |        |            | the following 4 fields:                           |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|           | 1      |            | bInterfaceClass                                   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x145     | 1      |            | bInterfaceSubClass                                |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x146     | 1      |            | bInterfaceProtocol                                |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x147     | 1      |            | padding byte for alignment, shall be set to zero  |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0xC +     |        |            | The second exported USB device starts at i=1      |
| i*0x138 + |        |            | with the busid field.                             |
| m_(i-1)*4 |        |            |                                                   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+

OP_REQ_IMPORT:
	Request to import (attach) a remote USB device.

+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Offset    | Length | Value      | Description                                       |
+===========+========+============+===================================================+
| 0         | 2      | 0x0100     | Binary-coded decimal USBIP version number: v1.0.0 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 2         | 2      | 0x8003     | Command code: import a remote USB device.         |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4         | 4      | 0x00000000 | Status: unused, shall be set to 0                 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 8         | 32     |            | busid: the busid of the exported device on the    |
|           |        |            | remote host. The possible values are taken        |
|           |        |            | from the message field OP_REP_DEVLIST.busid.      |
|           |        |            | A string closed with zero, the unused bytes       |
|           |        |            | shall be filled with zeros.                       |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+

OP_REP_IMPORT:
	Reply to import (attach) a remote USB device.

+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Offset    | Length | Value      | Description                                       |
+===========+========+============+===================================================+
| 0         | 2      | 0x0100     | Binary-coded decimal USBIP version number: v1.0.0 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 2         | 2      | 0x0003     | Reply code: Reply to import.                      |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4         | 4      | 0x00000000 | Status:                                           |
|           |        |            |                                                   |
|           |        |            |   - 0 for OK                                      |
|           |        |            |   - 1 for error                                   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 8         |        |            | From now on comes the details of the imported     |
|           |        |            | device, if the previous status field was OK (0),  |
|           |        |            | otherwise the reply ends with the status field.   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|           | 256    |            | path: Path of the device on the host exporting the|
|           |        |            | USB device, string closed with zero byte, e.g.    |
|           |        |            | "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2"   |
|           |        |            | The unused bytes shall be filled with zero        |
|           |        |            | bytes.                                            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x108     | 32     |            | busid: Bus ID of the exported device, string      |
|           |        |            | closed with zero byte, e.g. "3-2". The unused     |
|           |        |            | bytes shall be filled with zero bytes.            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x128     | 4      |            | busnum                                            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x12C     | 4      |            | devnum                                            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x130     | 4      |            | speed                                             |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x134     | 2      |            | idVendor                                          |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x136     | 2      |            | idProduct                                         |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x138     | 2      |            | bcdDevice                                         |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x139     | 1      |            | bDeviceClass                                      |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13A     | 1      |            | bDeviceSubClass                                   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13B     | 1      |            | bDeviceProtocol                                   |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13C     | 1      |            | bConfigurationValue                               |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13D     | 1      |            | bNumConfigurations                                |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x13E     | 1      |            | bNumInterfaces                                    |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+

USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT:
	Submit an URB

+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Offset    | Length | Value      | Description                                       |
+===========+========+============+===================================================+
| 0         | 4      | 0x00000001 | command: Submit an URB                            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4         | 4      |            | seqnum: the sequence number of the URB to submit  |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 8         | 4      |            | devid                                             |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0xC       | 4      |            | direction:                                        |
|           |        |            |                                                   |
|           |        |            |    - 0: USBIP_DIR_OUT                             |
|           |        |            |    - 1: USBIP_DIR_IN                              |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x10      | 4      |            | ep: endpoint number, possible values are: 0...15  |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x14      | 4      |            | transfer_flags: possible values depend on the     |
|           |        |            | URB transfer type, see below                      |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x18      | 4      |            | transfer_buffer_length                            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x1C      | 4      |            | start_frame: specify the selected frame to        |
|           |        |            | transmit an ISO frame, ignored if URB_ISO_ASAP    |
|           |        |            | is specified at transfer_flags                    |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x20      | 4      |            | number_of_packets: number of ISO packets          |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x24      | 4      |            | interval: maximum time for the request on the     |
|           |        |            | server-side host controller                       |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x28      | 8      |            | setup: data bytes for USB setup, filled with      |
|           |        |            | zeros if not used                                 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x30      |        |            | URB data. For ISO transfers the padding between   |
|           |        |            | each ISO packets is not transmitted.              |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+


 +-------------------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+-------------+
 | Allowed transfer_flags  | value      | control | interrupt | bulk     | isochronous |
 +=========================+============+=========+===========+==========+=============+
 | URB_SHORT_NOT_OK        | 0x00000001 | only in | only in   | only in  | no          |
 +-------------------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+-------------+
 | URB_ISO_ASAP            | 0x00000002 | no      | no        | no       | yes         |
 +-------------------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+-------------+
 | URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP | 0x00000004 | yes     | yes       | yes      | yes         |
 +-------------------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+-------------+
 | URB_ZERO_PACKET         | 0x00000040 | no      | no        | only out | no          |
 +-------------------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+-------------+
 | URB_NO_INTERRUPT        | 0x00000080 | yes     | yes       | yes      | yes         |
 +-------------------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+-------------+
 | URB_FREE_BUFFER         | 0x00000100 | yes     | yes       | yes      | yes         |
 +-------------------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+-------------+
 | URB_DIR_MASK            | 0x00000200 | yes     | yes       | yes      | yes         |
 +-------------------------+------------+---------+-----------+----------+-------------+


USBIP_RET_SUBMIT:
	Reply for submitting an URB

+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Offset    | Length | Value      | Description                                       |
+===========+========+============+===================================================+
| 0         | 4      | 0x00000003 | command                                           |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4         | 4      |            | seqnum: URB sequence number                       |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 8         | 4      |            | devid                                             |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0xC       | 4      |            | direction:                                        |
|           |        |            |                                                   |
|           |        |            |    - 0: USBIP_DIR_OUT                             |
|           |        |            |    - 1: USBIP_DIR_IN                              |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x10      | 4      |            | ep: endpoint number                               |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x14      | 4      |            | status: zero for successful URB transaction,      |
|           |        |            | otherwise some kind of error happened.            |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x18      | 4      | n          | actual_length: number of URB data bytes           |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x1C      | 4      |            | start_frame: for an ISO frame the actually        |
|           |        |            | selected frame for transmit.                      |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x20      | 4      |            | number_of_packets                                 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x24      | 4      |            | error_count                                       |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x28      | 8      |            | setup: data bytes for USB setup, filled with      |
|           |        |            | zeros if not used                                 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x30      | n      |            | URB data bytes. For ISO transfers the padding     |
|           |        |            | between each ISO packets is not transmitted.      |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+

USBIP_CMD_UNLINK:
	Unlink an URB

+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Offset    | Length | Value      | Description                                       |
+===========+========+============+===================================================+
| 0         | 4      | 0x00000002 | command: URB unlink command                       |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4         | 4      |            | seqnum: URB sequence number to unlink:            |
|           |        |            |                                                   |
|           |        |            | FIXME:                                            |
|           |        |            |    is this so?                                    |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 8         | 4      |            | devid                                             |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0xC       | 4      |            | direction:                                        |
|           |        |            |                                                   |
|           |        |            |    - 0: USBIP_DIR_OUT                             |
|           |        |            |    - 1: USBIP_DIR_IN                              |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x10      | 4      |            | ep: endpoint number: zero                         |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x14      | 4      |            | seqnum: the URB sequence number given previously  |
|           |        |            | at USBIP_CMD_SUBMIT.seqnum field                  |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x30      | n      |            | URB data bytes. For ISO transfers the padding     |
|           |        |            | between each ISO packets is not transmitted.      |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+

USBIP_RET_UNLINK:
	Reply for URB unlink

+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Offset    | Length | Value      | Description                                       |
+===========+========+============+===================================================+
| 0         | 4      | 0x00000004 | command: reply for the URB unlink command         |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 4         | 4      |            | seqnum: the unlinked URB sequence number          |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 8         | 4      |            | devid                                             |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0xC       | 4      |            | direction:                                        |
|           |        |            |                                                   |
|           |        |            |    - 0: USBIP_DIR_OUT                             |
|           |        |            |    - 1: USBIP_DIR_IN                              |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x10      | 4      |            | ep: endpoint number                               |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x14      | 4      |            | status: This is the value contained in the        |
|           |        |            | urb->status in the URB completition handler.      |
|           |        |            |                                                   |
|           |        |            | FIXME:                                            |
|           |        |            |      a better explanation needed.                 |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 0x30      | n      |            | URB data bytes. For ISO transfers the padding     |
|           |        |            | between each ISO packets is not transmitted.      |
+-----------+--------+------------+---------------------------------------------------+