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firewire: new stack is no longer experimental

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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>
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Stefan Richter 2009-06-16 22:36:34 +02:00
parent 00635b8ee2
commit 0c53decdd0
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drivers/firewire/Kconfig
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@ -1,28 +1,29 @@
comment "A new alternative FireWire stack is available with EXPERIMENTAL=y"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL=n
comment "Enable only one of the two stacks, unless you know what you are doing"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
comment "You can enable one or both FireWire driver stacks."
comment "See the help texts for more information."
config FIREWIRE
tristate "New FireWire stack, EXPERIMENTAL"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
tristate "FireWire driver stack"
select CRC_ITU_T
help
This is the "Juju" FireWire stack, a new alternative implementation
designed for robustness and simplicity. You can build either this
stack, or the old stack (the ieee1394 driver, ohci1394 etc.) or both.
Please read http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
before you enable the new stack.
This is the new-generation IEEE 1394 (FireWire) driver stack
a.k.a. Juju, a new implementation designed for robustness and
simplicity.
See http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
for information about migration from the older Linux 1394 stack
to the new driver stack.
To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
called firewire-core.
This module functionally replaces ieee1394, raw1394, and video1394.
To access it from application programs, you generally need at least
libraw1394 version 2. IIDC/DCAM applications also need libdc1394
version 2. No libraries are required to access storage devices
through the firewire-sbp2 driver.
libraw1394 v2. IIDC/DCAM applications need libdc1394 v2.
No libraries are required to access storage devices through the
firewire-sbp2 driver.
NOTE:
FireWire audio devices currently require the old drivers (ieee1394,
ohci1394, raw1394).
config FIREWIRE_OHCI
tristate "OHCI-1394 controllers"
@ -37,11 +38,9 @@ config FIREWIRE_OHCI
stack.
NOTE:
You should only build either firewire-ohci or the old ohci1394 driver,
but not both. If you nevertheless want to install both, you should
configure them only as modules and blacklist the driver(s) which you
don't want to have auto-loaded. Add either
If you want to install firewire-ohci and ohci1394 together, you
should configure them only as modules and blacklist the driver(s)
which you don't want to have auto-loaded. Add either
blacklist firewire-ohci
or
@ -50,12 +49,7 @@ config FIREWIRE_OHCI
blacklist dv1394
to /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/* and update modprobe.conf
depending on your distribution. The latter two modules should be
blacklisted together with ohci1394 because they depend on ohci1394.
If you have an old modprobe which doesn't implement the blacklist
directive, use "install modulename /bin/true" for the modules to be
blacklisted.
depending on your distribution.
config FIREWIRE_OHCI_DEBUG
bool
@ -79,13 +73,15 @@ config FIREWIRE_SBP2
configuration section.
config FIREWIRE_NET
tristate "IP networking over 1394"
depends on FIREWIRE && INET
tristate "IP networking over 1394 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on FIREWIRE && INET && EXPERIMENTAL
help
This enables IPv4 over IEEE 1394, providing IP connectivity with
other implementations of RFC 2734 as found on several operating
systems. Multicast support is currently limited.
NOTE, this driver is not stable yet!
To compile this driver as a module, say M here: The module will be
called firewire-net. It replaces eth1394 of the classic IEEE 1394
stack.

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drivers/ieee1394/Kconfig
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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ menu "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support"
source "drivers/firewire/Kconfig"
config IEEE1394
tristate "Stable FireWire stack"
tristate "Legacy alternative FireWire driver stack"
depends on PCI || BROKEN
help
IEEE 1394 describes a high performance serial bus, which is also
@ -33,11 +33,9 @@ config IEEE1394_OHCI1394
module will be called ohci1394.
NOTE:
You should only build either ohci1394 or the new firewire-ohci driver,
but not both. If you nevertheless want to install both, you should
configure them only as modules and blacklist the driver(s) which you
don't want to have auto-loaded. Add either
If you want to install firewire-ohci and ohci1394 together, you
should configure them only as modules and blacklist the driver(s)
which you don't want to have auto-loaded. Add either
blacklist firewire-ohci
or
@ -46,12 +44,7 @@ config IEEE1394_OHCI1394
blacklist dv1394
to /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/* and update modprobe.conf
depending on your distribution. The latter two modules should be
blacklisted together with ohci1394 because they depend on ohci1394.
If you have an old modprobe which doesn't implement the blacklist
directive, use "install modulename /bin/true" for the modules to be
blacklisted.
depending on your distribution.
comment "PCILynx controller requires I2C"
depends on IEEE1394 && I2C=n
@ -105,7 +98,7 @@ config IEEE1394_ETH1394_ROM_ENTRY
default n
config IEEE1394_ETH1394
tristate "IP networking over 1394"
tristate "IP networking over 1394 (experimental)"
depends on IEEE1394 && EXPERIMENTAL && INET
select IEEE1394_ETH1394_ROM_ENTRY
help