-menu "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support"
- depends on PCI || BROKEN
-
config IEEE1394
- tristate "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support"
+ tristate "Legacy alternative FireWire driver stack"
depends on PCI || BROKEN
help
IEEE 1394 describes a high performance serial bus, which is also
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+ ieee1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-core driver.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.
-comment "Controllers"
- depends on IEEE1394
+ 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+ ohci1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-ohci driver.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.
-comment "Texas Instruments PCILynx requires I2C"
+ 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 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 "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.
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.
-config IEEE1394_OHCI1394
- tristate "OHCI-1394 support"
- depends on PCI && IEEE1394
- 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.
-
- To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the
- module will be called ohci1394.
-
-comment "Protocols"
- depends on IEEE1394
-
-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.
-
comment "SBP-2 support (for storage devices) requires SCSI"
depends on IEEE1394 && SCSI=n
config IEEE1394_SBP2
- tristate "SBP-2 support (Harddisks etc.)"
+ tristate "Storage devices (SBP-2 protocol)"
depends on IEEE1394 && SCSI
help
This option enables you to use SBP-2 devices connected to an IEEE
You should also enable support for disks, CD-ROMs, etc. in the SCSI
configuration section.
+ To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
+ called sbp2.
+
+ 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_PHYS_DMA
bool "Enable replacement for physical DMA in SBP2"
- depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_SBP2 && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86_32 || PPC_32)
+ depends on IEEE1394_SBP2 && VIRT_TO_BUS && EXPERIMENTAL
help
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.
default n
config IEEE1394_ETH1394
- tristate "IP over 1394"
+ tristate "IP networking over 1394 (experimental)"
depends on IEEE1394 && EXPERIMENTAL && INET
select IEEE1394_ETH1394_ROM_ENTRY
help
The module is called eth1394 although it does not emulate Ethernet.
-config IEEE1394_DV1394
- tristate "OHCI-DV I/O support (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 raw1394 together
- with libraries such as libiec61883.
+ 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
This option adds support for the raw1394 device file which enables
- direct communication of user programs with the IEEE 1394 bus and thus
- with the attached peripherals. Almost all application programs which
- access FireWire require this option.
+ 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.
-endmenu
+ 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 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 video1394.
+
+ 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+ Say Y if you really need the debugging output. Everyone else says N.