ubtbcmfw(4)

ubtbcmfw4

Firmware driver for broadcom bcm2033 chip based bluetooth usb devices

Usage

device ubtbcmfw

In loader.conf(5): ubtbcmfw_load="YES"

Overview

The ubtbcmfw is a firmware driver for Broadcom BCM2033 chip based Bluetooth USB devices. It provides minimal access to the parts of the device required to download firmware.

The ubtbcmfw driver creates three fixed endpoint device nodes.

The control transfers can only happen on the control endpoint which is always endpoint 0. Control requests are issued by ioctl(2) calls.

Only incoming transfers are supported on an interrupt endpoint. To perform I/O on an interrupt endpoint, read(2) should be used. All I/O operations on an interrupt endpoint are unbuffered. Interrupt endpoint is always endpoint 1.

Only outgoing bulk transfers are supported on a bulk endpoint. To perform I/O on a bulk endpoint, write(2) should be used. All I/O operations on a bulk endpoint are unbuffered. Outgoing bulk endpoint is always endpoint 2.

The control endpoint (endpoint 0) handles the following ioctl(2) calls:

USB_GET_DEVICE_DESC (usb_device_descriptor_t)

Return the device descriptor.

Files

/dev/ubtbcmfwN.EE

Endpoint EE of device N.

Releases

55 releases since FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE; the text changed 37 times.

  1. 5.1
  2. 5.2–5.2.1
  3. 5.3–5.5
  4. 6.0–6.2
  5. 6.3
  6. 6.4
  7. 7.0
  8. 7.1
  9. 7.2
  10. 7.3
  11. 7.4
  12. 8.0
  13. 8.1
  14. 8.2
  15. 8.3
  16. 8.4
  17. 9.0
  18. 9.1
  19. 9.2
  20. 9.3
  21. 10.0
  22. 10.1
  23. 10.2
  24. 10.3
  25. 10.4
  26. 11.0
  27. 11.1
  28. 11.2
  29. 11.3
  30. 11.4
  31. 12.0
  32. 12.1
  33. 12.2
  34. 12.3
  35. 12.4
  36. 13.0–13.2
  37. 13.3–15.1
  38. 16.0

History

The ubtbcmfw driver was implemented in FreeBSD 5.0.

Authors

Maksim Yevmenkin ⟨[email protected]⟩

Bugs

Most likely. Please report if found.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.