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@@ -36,14 +36,15 @@ available (notebooks) or too slow for extensive debug information (like ACPI).
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-The OHCI-1394 drivers in drivers/firewire and drivers/ieee1394 initialize
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-the OHCI-1394 controllers to a working state and can be used to enable
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-physical DMA. By default you only have to load the driver, and physical
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-DMA access will be granted to all remote nodes, but it can be turned off
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-when using the ohci1394 driver.
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-Because these drivers depend on the PCI enumeration to be completed, an
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-initialization routine which can runs pretty early (long before console_init(),
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+The ohci1394 driver in drivers/ieee1394 initializes the OHCI-1394 controllers
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+to a working state and enables physical DMA by default for all remote nodes.
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+This can be turned off by ohci1394's module parameter phys_dma=0.
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+The alternative firewire-ohci driver in drivers/firewire uses filtered physical
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+DMA, hence is not yet suitable for remote debugging.
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+Because ohci1394 depends on the PCI enumeration to be completed, an
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+initialization routine which runs pretty early (long before console_init()
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which makes the printk buffer appear on the console can be called) was written.
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To activate it, enable CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT (Kernel hacking menu:
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