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Introduction

The AXI USB device IP is an USB device controller IP. It has no support for HOST or OTG mode. This IP can be instantiated on FPGA or Zynq /Ultrascale plus PL. This page describes the usage of AXI USB device IP linux driver.

HW/IP Features

Features supported by driver

Kernel Configuration

  1. Enable the AXI USB linux driver in kernel configuration
    Device Drivers -> USB Support -> USB Gadget Support -> USB Peripheral Conotroller -> Xilinx USB driver
  2. Enable Mass storage gadget
    Device Drivers -> USB Support -> USB Gadget Support -> Mass Storage Gadget
    Device Drivers -> USB Support -> USB Gadget Support -> USB Gadget Drivers -> USB functions configurable through configfs

Devicetree

Example Device tree node:
       axi-usb2-device@42e00000 {
            compatible = "xlnx,usb2-device-4.00.a";
            interrupt-parent = <&ps7_scugic_0>;
            interrupts = <0 0x39 0x1>;
            xlnx,include-dma;
            reg = <0x42e00000 0x1000>;
       }

Performance

Host used: Dell Precision Tower 7910
ReadWrite
15.0 MB/sec22.9 MB/sec

Test Procedure


Images:

  1. compile the kernel and modules. Copy kernel Image and compiled modules to SD card.
  2. Copy following to SD card: BOOT.bin which has PL bitstream with AXI USB device IP, FSBL and U-Boot. dtb, uramdisk.img (All are provided in attachment).
  3. Boot ZC702 with SD card.
  4. Follow these steps on the board after linux boots :

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/mydev count=5 bs=1M
    insmod xilinx_udc.ko
    insmod configfs.ko //NOTE: configfs.ko is generated under fs/configfs/ in linux source
    insmod libcomposite.ko
    insmod usb_f_mass_storage.ko
    insmod g_mass_storage.ko file=/tmp/mydev removable=1



  1. Connect the usb cable to host PC(windows/linux). Host shows the gadget as a mass storage device with 5MB capacity.

Mainline Status

The current driver available in the Xilinx Linux git is in sync with the open-source 6.1 kernel driver except for the following:
usb: gadget: udc-xilinx: replace memcpy with memcpy_toio

Change Log

2023.2

2023.1

2022.2

2022.1

2021.2

2021.1

2020.2

2020.1


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