The drivers
- ohci1394 (controller driver)
- ieee1394 (core)
- dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
- eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
- firewire-ohci (controller driver)
- firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
- firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.
The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core. Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.
The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare. Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.
The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.
There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
- The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
I am looking into the M52xx issue.
- The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
experimental cousin eth1394.
- Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
This issue is still under investigation.
- There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers. Of them,
only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.
All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden. The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This adds nosy-dump, the userspace part of nosy, the IEEE 1394 traffic
sniffer for Texas Instruments PCILynx/ PCILynx2 based cards. Author is
Kristian Høgsberg.
The files added here are taken from
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~krh/nosy commit ee29be97 (2009-11-10)
with the following changes by Stefan Richter:
- Parts pertaining to the kernel module removed from Makefile.
- dist target removed from the Makefile.
- Mentioned nosy-dump in the Kconfig help to nosy's kernel component.
- Add copyright notice to nosy-dump.c. This is a duplicate of the
respective notice in the kernel component nosy.c except for a time
span of 2002 - 2006, according to Kristian's git log.
"git shortlog decode-fcp.c list.h nosy-dump.[ch]" from nosy's git
repository:
Jonathan Woithe (1):
Save logs on Ctrl-C
Kristian Høgsberg (11):
Pull over nosy from mercurial repo.
Remove some fields from default view, add logging feature.
Use infinite time out for poll(), mark more detail fields.
Fix byte ordering macro.
Add decoding of iso data and lock packets.
Add flag to indicate data length field.
Add cycle start packet decoding, add --iso and --cycle-start flags.
Distinguish between phy-packets and 0-length iso data.
Fix transaction and stats view.
Add simple AV/C decoder.
Don't break down on big payloads.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
This adds the traffic sniffer driver for Texas Instruments PCILynx/
PCILynx2 based cards. The use cases for nosy are analysis of
nonstandard protocols and as an aid in development of drivers,
applications, or firmwares.
Author of the driver is Kristian Høgsberg. Known contributers are
Jody McIntyre and Jonathan Woithe.
Nosy programs PCILynx chips to operate in promiscuous mode, which is a
feature that is not found in OHCI-1394 controllers. Hence, only special
hardware as mentioned in the Kconfig help text is suitable for nosy.
This is only the kernelspace part of nosy. There is a userspace
interface to it, called nosy-dump, proposed to be added into the tools/
subdirectory of the kernel sources in a subsequent change. Kernelspace
and userspave component of nosy communicate via a 'misc' character
device file called /dev/nosy with a simple ioctl() and read() based
protocol, as described by nosy-user.h.
The files added here are taken from
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~krh/nosy commit ee29be97 (2009-11-10)
with the following changes by Stefan Richter:
- Kconfig and Makefile hunks are written from scratch.
- Commented out version printk in nosy.c.
- Included missing <linux/sched.h>, reported by Stephen Rothwell.
"git shortlog nosy{-user.h,.c,.h}" from nosy's git repository:
Jonathan Woithe (2):
Nosy updates for recent kernels
Fix uninitialised memory (needed for 2.6.31 kernel)
Kristian Høgsberg (5):
Pull over nosy from mercurial repo.
Use a misc device instead.
Add simple AV/C decoder.
Don't break down on big payloads.
Set parent device for misc device.
As a low-level IEEE 1394 driver, its files are placed into
drivers/firewire/ although nosy is not part of the firewire driver
stack.
I am aware of the following literature from Texas Instruments about
PCILynx programming:
SCPA020A - PCILynx 1394 to PCI Bus Interface TSB12LV21BPGF
Functional Specification
SLLA023 - Initialization and Asynchronous Programming of the
TSB12LV21A 1394 Device
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
Update the Kconfig help texts of both stacks to encourage a general move
from the older to the newer drivers. However, do not label ieee1394 as
"Obsolete" yet, as the newer drivers have not been deployed as default
stack in the majority of Linux distributions yet, and those who start
doing so now may still want to install the old drivers as fallback for
unforeseen issues.
Since Linux 2.6.32, FireWire audio devices can be driven by the newer
firewire driver stack too, hence remove an outdated comment about audio
devices. Also remove comments about library versions since the 2nd
generation of libraw1394 and libdc1394 is now in common use; details on
library versions can be read at the wiki link from the help texts.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
The new stack is now recommended over the old one if used for industrial
video (IIDC/DCAM) or for storage devices (SBP-2) due to better
performance, improved compatibility, added features, and security. It
should also be functionally on par with and is more secure than the old
ieee1394 stack in the use case of consumer video devices.
IP-over-1394 support for the new stack is currently emerging, and a
backend of the firedtv DVB driver to the new stack should be available
soon.
The one remaining area where the old stack is still required are audio
devices, as the new stack is not yet able to support the FFADO FireWire
audio framework.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
The driver is now called firewire-net. It might implement the transport
of other networking protocols in the future, notably IPv6 per RFC 3146.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Emphasize the recommendation to build only one stack.
Trim the prompts to better fit into short attention spans.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This adds debug printks for asynchronous transmission and reception and
for self ID reception. They can be enabled at module load time, and at
runtime via /sys/module/firewire_ohci/parameters/debug.
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
Also added: Logging of interrupt event codes and of cancelled AT
packets.
The code now depends on a Kconfig variable. This makes it easier to
build firewire-ohci without the feature or to make it an option in the
future. The variable is currently hidden and always on.
This feature inflates firewire-ohci.ko by 7 kB = 27% on x86-64 and by
4 kB = 23% on i686.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Remove some less necessary information, point out that video1394 and
dv1394 should be blacklisted along with ohci1394.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Alas that won't work so good, because nobody reads help texts.
I thought about adding some crude multiple choice selection (build the
old stack, build the new stack, build both stacks). It's possible, but
it would introduce awkward dummy config variables.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Of course everybody immediately associates "fw-" with FireWire, not
firmware or firewall or whatever. But "firewire-" has a nice ring to
it too.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
With the CRC ITU-T implementation available in lib/ we can use that instead.
This also fixes a bug in the topology map crc computation.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (fixed Kconfig)
Stefan Richter