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Documentation: correction to debugging-via-ohci1394

Rectify a factoid about firewire-ohci.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Also fix a typo spotted by Bernhard Kaindl.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Stefan Richter 17 years ago
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Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt

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