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USB 3.1 Driver for Hard Processor System

Last updated: October 10, 2025

Upstream Status: Not Upstreamed

Devices supported: Agilex 5

Introduction

The HPS provides a single instance of a USB 3.1 Gen 1 controller that supports both device and host functions for high-speed applications. The general use cases of USB 3.1 are for the HPS system to support all USB devices such as:

  • Portable electronic devices
  • High-bandwidth applications like audio and video.
  • Debug trace applications

For More information please refer to the following link:

Agilex 5 Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual

usb3_1_diagram

USB 3.1 Glue Driver

drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-of-simple.c is a USB glue driver for the dw3-agilex-edge.c component depicted in the diagram below. This glue driver is used to control dynamic mode switching.

usb3_1_driver

Driver Sources

The source code for this driver can be found at:

https://github.com/altera-opensource/linux-socfpga/blob/socfpga-6.1.55-lts/drivers/usb/dwc3/dwc3-of-simple.c

Driver Capabilities

  • It provides a reference to the Clock which is required by the rest of the interfaces.

Kernel Configurations

CONFIG_USB_DWC3

usb_3_config_path

Device Tree

Example Device tree location to configure the usb3_1:

https://github.com/altera-opensource/linux-socfpga/blob/socfpga-6.1.55-lts/arch/arm64/boot/dts/intel/socfpga_agilex5.dtsi

usb3_1_device_tree_1

Known Issues

  • Currently dynamic mode switching is not supported
  • Real-time detection of USB-C slave devices not supported

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Last update: October 6, 2025
Created: May 25, 2024
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