-menu "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support"
- depends on PCI || BROKEN
-
-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
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.
+
+ 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+ ieee1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-core driver.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_OHCI1394
tristate "OHCI-1394 controllers"
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.
+ To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
+ called ohci1394.
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+ ohci1394 is superseded by the newer firewire-ohci driver.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.
- 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
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. 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
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
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_SBP2 && VIRT_TO_BUS && EXPERIMENTAL
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
The module is called eth1394 although it does not emulate Ethernet.
+ 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 "raw1394 userspace interface"
depends on IEEE1394
To compile this driver as a module, say M here: the module will be
called raw1394.
+ 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
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 raw1394 together
- with libraries such as libiec61883.
+ 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"
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.
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