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From: Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
Subject: VIA firewire controller and "non CYCLEMASTER mode"
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It has been over a year, time to ask again:

> If we assume that I need to get the VIA into non-CYCLEMASTER mode,
> (since that worked with the NEC), any ideas why
>
>       fwcontrol -u 0 -f 0
>       fwcontrol -u 0 -r
>
> doesn't force the VIA into non-CYCLEMASTER mode the way
> it (with -u 1) works for NEC?

PR: kern/113785

VIA 6307, reported as:
fwohci0: <VIA Fire II (VT6306)> port 0xa800-0xa87f mem 0xfdffe000-0xfdffe7ff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci1
AFAIK, the difference between 6306 and 6307 is the number of ports.

Currently running FreeBSD 7.1 amd64.