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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>
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input
Combination of the following changes:
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:17:30 +0200 (CEST)
firedtv: fix remote control input
and update the scancode-to-keycode mapping to a current model. Per
default, various media key keycodes are emitted which closely match what
is printed on the remote. Userland can modify the mapping by means of
evdev ioctls. (Not tested.)
The old scancode-to-keycode mapping is left in the driver but cannot be
modified by ioctls. This preserves status quo for old remotes.
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:11:28 +0200 (CEST)
firedtv: replace tasklet by workqueue job
Non-atomic context is a lot nicer to work with.
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:30:00 +0200 (CEST)
firedtv: move some code back to ieee1394 core
Partially reverts "ieee1394: remove unused code" of Linux 2.6.25.
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:29:30 +0200 (CEST)
firedtv: replace semaphore by mutex
firesat->avc_sem and ->demux_sem have been used exactly like a mutex.
The only exception is the schedule_remotecontrol tasklet which did a
down_trylock in atomic context. This is not possible with
mutex_trylock; however the whole remote control related code is
non-functional anyway at the moment. This should be fixed eventually,
probably by turning the tasklet into a worqueue job.
Convert everything else from semaphore to mutex.
Also rewrite a few of the affected functions to unlock the mutex at a
single exit point, instead of in several branches.
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:28:45 +0200 (CEST)
firedtv: some header cleanups
Unify #ifndef/#define/#endif guards against multiple inclusion.
Drop extern keyword from function declarations.
Remove #include's into header files where struct declarations suffice.
Remove unused ohci1394 interface and related unused ieee1394 interfaces.
Add a few missing #include's and remove a few apparently obsolete ones.
Sort them alphabetically.
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:27:45 +0200 (CEST)
firedtv: nicer registration message and some initialization fixes
Print the correct name in dvb_register_adapter().
While we are at it, replace two switch cascades by one for loop, remove
a superfluous member of struct firesat and of two unused arguments of
AVCIdentifySubunit(), and fix bogus kfree's in firesat_dvbdev_init().
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:24:17 +0200 (CEST)
firesat: rename to firedtv
Suggested by Andreas Monitzer. Besides DVB-S/-S2 receivers, the driver
also supports DVB-C and DVB-T receivers, hence the previous project name
is too narrow now.
Not yet done: Rename source directory, files, types, variables...
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:26:23 +0200 (CEST)
firesat: add missing copyright notes
Reported by Andreas Monitzer and Christian Dolzer.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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As it seems, some host controllers have issues that can cause them to
skip cycles now and then when using large packets. I suspect that this
is due to DMA not succeeding in time. If the transmit fifo can't contain
more than one packet (big packets), the DMA should provide a new packet
each cycle (125us). I am under the impression that my current PCI
express test system can't guarantee this.
In any case, the patch tries to provide a workaround as follows:
The DMA program descriptors are modified such that when an error occurs,
the DMA engine retries the descriptor the next cycle instead of
stalling. This way no data is lost. The side effect of this is that
packets are sent with one cycle delay. This however might not be that
much of a problem for certain protocols (e.g. AM824). If they use
padding packets for e.g. rate matching they can drop one of those to
resync the streams.
The amount of skips between two userspace wakeups is counted. This
number is then propagated to userspace through the upper 16 bits of the
'dropped' parameter. This allows unmodified userspace applications due
to the following:
1) libraw simply passes this dropped parameter to the user application
2) the meaning of the dropped parameter is: if it's nonzero, something
bad has happened. The actual value of the parameter at this moment does
not have a specific meaning.
A libraw client can then retrieve the number of skipped cycles and
account for them if needed.
Signed-off-by: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@joow.be>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Remove unnecessary includes, add missing includes.
Use forward type declarations for some structs.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Adjust tabulators, line wraps, empty lines, and comment style.
Update comments in ieee1394_transactions.h and highlevel.h.
Fix typo in comment in csr.h.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Lots of this patch is trivial code cleanups (static vars were being
intialized to 0, etc).
There's also some fixes for ISO transmits (max buffer handling).
Aswell, we have a few fixes to disable IRM capabilites correctly. We've
also disabled, by default some generally unused EXPORT symbols for the
sake of cleanliness in the kernel. However, instead of removing them
completely, we felt it necessary to have a config option that allowed
them to be enabled for the many projects outside of the main kernel tree
that use our API for driver development.
The primary reason for this patch is to revert a MODE6->MODE10 RBC
conversion patch from the SCSI maintainers. The new conversions handled
directly in the scsi layer do not seem to work for SBP2. This patch
reverts to our old working code so that users can enjoy using Firewire
disks and dvd drives again.
We are working with the SCSI maintainers to resolve this issue outside
of the main kernel tree. We'll merge the patch once the SCSI layer's
handling of the MODE10 conversion is working for us.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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