-# -*- shell-script -*-
-
-menu "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support"
-
config IEEE1394
- tristate "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support"
+ tristate "Legacy alternative FireWire driver stack"
depends on PCI || BROKEN
- select NET
help
IEEE 1394 describes a high performance serial bus, which is also
known as FireWire(tm) or i.Link(tm) and is used for connecting all
is the core support only, you will also need to select a driver for
your IEEE 1394 adapter.
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called ieee1394.
+ To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
+ called ieee1394.
-comment "Subsystem Options"
- depends on IEEE1394
+ NOTE:
+ ieee1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-core driver. See
+ http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration for
+ further information on how to switch to the new FireWire drivers.
-config IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG
- bool "Excessive debugging output"
- depends on IEEE1394
+config IEEE1394_OHCI1394
+ tristate "OHCI-1394 controllers"
+ depends on PCI && IEEE1394
help
- If you say Y here, you will get very verbose debugging logs from
- the subsystem which includes a dump of the header of every sent
- and received packet. This can amount to a high amount of data
- collected in a very short time which is usually also saved to
- disk by the system logging daemons.
+ Enable this driver if you have an IEEE 1394 controller based on the
+ OHCI-1394 specification. The current driver is only tested with OHCI
+ chipsets made by Texas Instruments and NEC. Most third-party vendors
+ use one of these chipsets. It should work with any OHCI-1394
+ compliant card, however.
- Say Y if you really want or need the debugging output, everyone
- else says N.
+ To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
+ called ohci1394.
-config IEEE1394_OUI_DB
- bool "OUI Database built-in"
- depends on IEEE1394
- help
- If you say Y here, then an OUI list (vendor unique ID's) will be
- compiled into the ieee1394 module. This doesn't really do much
- except being able to display the vendor of a hardware node. The
- downside is that it adds about 300k to the size of the module,
- or kernel (depending on whether you compile ieee1394 as a
- module, or static in the kernel).
-
- This option is not needed for userspace programs like gscanbus
- to show this information.
-
-config IEEE1394_EXTRA_CONFIG_ROMS
- bool "Build in extra config rom entries for certain functionality"
- depends on IEEE1394
- help
- Some IEEE1394 functionality depends on extra config rom entries
- being available in the host adapters CSR. These options will
- allow you to choose which ones.
+ NOTE:
+ ohci1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-ohci driver. See
+ http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration for
+ further information on how to switch to the new FireWire drivers.
-config IEEE1394_CONFIG_ROM_IP1394
- bool "IP-1394 Entry"
- depends on IEEE1394_EXTRA_CONFIG_ROMS && IEEE1394
- help
- Adds an entry for using IP-over-1394. If you want to use your
- IEEE1394 bus as a network for IP systems (including interacting
- with MacOSX and WinXP IP-over-1394), enable this option and the
- eth1394 option below.
+ 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
-comment "Device Drivers"
- depends on IEEE1394
+ blacklist ohci1394
+ blacklist video1394
+ blacklist dv1394
+ or
+ blacklist firewire-ohci
+
+ to /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/* and update modprobe.conf
+ depending on your distribution.
-comment "Texas Instruments PCILynx requires I2C"
+comment "PCILynx controller requires I2C"
depends on IEEE1394 && I2C=n
config IEEE1394_PCILYNX
- tristate "Texas Instruments PCILynx support"
+ tristate "PCILynx controller"
depends on PCI && IEEE1394 && I2C
select I2C_ALGOBIT
help
Instruments PCILynx chip. Note: this driver is written for revision
2 of this chip and may not work with revision 0.
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called pcilynx.
+ To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
+ called pcilynx.
-config IEEE1394_OHCI1394
- tristate "OHCI-1394 support"
- depends on PCI && IEEE1394
+ Only some old and now very rare PCI and CardBus cards and
+ PowerMacs G3 B&W contain the PCILynx controller. Therefore
+ almost everybody can say N here.
+
+comment "SBP-2 support (for storage devices) requires SCSI"
+ depends on IEEE1394 && SCSI=n
+
+config IEEE1394_SBP2
+ tristate "Storage devices (SBP-2 protocol)"
+ depends on IEEE1394 && SCSI
help
- Enable this driver if you have an IEEE 1394 controller based on the
- OHCI-1394 specification. The current driver is only tested with OHCI
- chipsets made by Texas Instruments and NEC. Most third-party vendors
- use one of these chipsets. It should work with any OHCI-1394
- compliant card, however.
+ This option enables you to use SBP-2 devices connected to an IEEE
+ 1394 bus. SBP-2 devices include storage devices like harddisks and
+ DVD drives, also some other FireWire devices like scanners.
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called ohci1394.
+ You should also enable support for disks, CD-ROMs, etc. in the SCSI
+ configuration section.
-comment "Protocol Drivers"
- depends on IEEE1394
+ To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
+ called sbp2.
-config IEEE1394_VIDEO1394
- tristate "OHCI-1394 Video support"
- depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394
- help
- This option enables video device usage for OHCI-1394 cards. Enable
- this option only if you have an IEEE 1394 video device connected to
- an OHCI-1394 card.
+ NOTE:
+ sbp2 is superseded by the newer firewire-sbp2 driver. See
+ http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration for
+ further information on how to switch to the new FireWire drivers.
-config IEEE1394_SBP2
- tristate "SBP-2 support (Harddisks etc.)"
- depends on IEEE1394 && SCSI && (PCI || BROKEN)
+config IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA
+ bool "Enable replacement for physical DMA in SBP2"
+ depends on IEEE1394_SBP2 && VIRT_TO_BUS && EXPERIMENTAL
help
- This option enables you to use SBP-2 devices connected to your IEEE
- 1394 bus. SBP-2 devices include harddrives and DVD devices.
+ This builds sbp2 for use with non-OHCI host adapters which do not
+ support physical DMA or for when ohci1394 is run with phys_dma=0.
+ Physical DMA is data movement without assistance of the drivers'
+ interrupt handlers. This option includes the interrupt handlers
+ that are required in absence of this hardware feature.
-config IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA
- bool "Enable Phys DMA support for SBP2 (Debug)"
- depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_SBP2
+ This option is buggy and currently broken on some architectures.
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config IEEE1394_ETH1394_ROM_ENTRY
+ depends on IEEE1394
+ bool
+ default n
config IEEE1394_ETH1394
- tristate "Ethernet over 1394"
+ tristate "IP networking over 1394 (experimental)"
depends on IEEE1394 && EXPERIMENTAL && INET
- select IEEE1394_CONFIG_ROM_IP1394
- select IEEE1394_EXTRA_CONFIG_ROMS
+ select IEEE1394_ETH1394_ROM_ENTRY
help
This driver implements a functional majority of RFC 2734: IPv4 over
1394. It will provide IP connectivity with implementations of RFC
This driver is still considered experimental. It does not yet support
MCAP, therefore multicast support is significantly limited.
-config IEEE1394_DV1394
- tristate "OHCI-DV I/O support"
- depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394
- help
- This driver allows you to transmit and receive DV (digital video)
- streams on an OHCI-1394 card using a simple frame-oriented
- interface.
+ The module is called eth1394 although it does not emulate Ethernet.
- The user-space API for dv1394 is documented in dv1394.h.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called dv1394.
+ NOTE:
+ eth1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-net driver. See
+ http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration for
+ further information on how to switch to the new FireWire drivers.
config IEEE1394_RAWIO
- tristate "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support"
+ tristate "raw1394 userspace interface"
depends on IEEE1394
help
- Say Y here if you want support for the raw device. This is generally
- a good idea, so you should say Y here. The raw device enables
- direct communication of user programs with the IEEE 1394 bus and
- thus with the attached peripherals.
+ This option adds support for the raw1394 device file which enables
+ direct communication of user programs with IEEE 1394 devices
+ (isochronous and asynchronous). Almost all application programs
+ which access FireWire require this option.
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called raw1394.
+ To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
+ called raw1394.
-config IEEE1394_CMP
- tristate "IEC61883-1 Plug support"
- depends on IEEE1394
+ NOTE:
+ raw1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-core driver. See
+ http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration for
+ further information on how to switch to the new FireWire drivers.
+
+config IEEE1394_VIDEO1394
+ tristate "video1394 userspace interface"
+ depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394
help
- This option enables the Connection Management Procedures
- (IEC61883-1) driver, which implements input and output plugs.
+ This option adds support for the video1394 device files which enable
+ isochronous communication of user programs with IEEE 1394 devices,
+ especially video capture or export. This interface is used by all
+ libdc1394 based programs and by several other programs, in addition to
+ the raw1394 interface. It is generally not required for DV capture.
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called cmp.
+ To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
+ called video1394.
-config IEEE1394_AMDTP
- tristate "IEC61883-6 (Audio transmission) support"
- depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394 && IEEE1394_CMP
- help
- This option enables the Audio & Music Data Transmission Protocol
- (IEC61883-6) driver, which implements audio transmission over
- IEEE1394.
+ NOTE:
+ video1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-core driver. See
+ http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration for
+ further information on how to switch to the new FireWire drivers.
- The userspace interface is documented in amdtp.h.
+config IEEE1394_DV1394
+ tristate "dv1394 userspace interface (deprecated)"
+ depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_OHCI1394
+ help
+ The dv1394 driver is unsupported and may be removed from Linux in a
+ future release. Its functionality is now provided by either
+ raw1394 or firewire-core together with libraries such as libiec61883.
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called amdtp.
+config IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG
+ bool "Excessive debugging output"
+ depends on IEEE1394
+ help
+ If you say Y here, you will get very verbose debugging logs from the
+ ieee1394 drivers, including sent and received packet headers. This
+ will quickly result in large amounts of data sent to the system log.
-endmenu
+ Say Y if you really need the debugging output. Everyone else says N.