Commit 0c53decd authored by Stefan Richter's avatar Stefan Richter
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firewire: new stack is no longer experimental 



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: default avatarStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
parent 00635b8e

drivers/firewire/Kconfig

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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.

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

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