2004-04-01 04:54:22

by Gene Heskett

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Subject: TI Firewire controller ?

Greetings;

I bought, 3 or so years back, a 1394 controller, thinking
that maybe it had a chance to become a standard, like USB
is now.

lspci -vv reports this:
00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments FireWire Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8010
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (750ns min, 1000ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: Memory at e3007000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Region 1: Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

Is there any chance that this card can actually be used with modern devices?
Or should I bin it and save the couple of watts its burning?

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2004-04-01 16:21:23

by Matt Gulick

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Subject: Re: TI Firewire controller ?

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 22:54, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I bought, 3 or so years back, a 1394 controller, thinking
> that maybe it had a chance to become a standard, like USB
> is now.
>
> lspci -vv reports this:
> 00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments FireWire Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
> Subsystem: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8010
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 32 (750ns min, 1000ns max), cache line size 08
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> Region 0: Memory at e3007000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
> Region 1: Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 1
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>
> Is there any chance that this card can actually be used with modern devices?
> Or should I bin it and save the couple of watts its burning?

There should probably be a mail list for 1394 (and USB for that matter)
as this is the kernel mail list.

I will respond to your query though.

If the information is correct and the card is OHCI (not the same as USB
OHCI), then it should work just fine. OHCI is a standard interface to
the 1394 link chip. If you plug that card into a Mac or Windose box, it
would be recognized as such and the drivers loaded. The same holds true
for Linux.

Matt

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