TI Firewire controller ?

TI Firewire controller ?

[Gene Heskett]

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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Re: TI Firewire controller ?

[Matt Gulick]

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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