Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:57:56 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Cc: firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad news: bus resets not fixed yet Message-ID: <20030303225756.GC837@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <ybsisv0k3zl.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> References: <20030228053856.GA640@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <ybs65r4lvye.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20030228080145.GA1736@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <ybswujhkaky.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20030302205029.GA15426@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <ybsr89pjd1p.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20030303053721.GA16857@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <ybsk7fgkdtc.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <20030303095158.GA88014@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <ybsisv0k3zl.wl@ett.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:51:26PM +0900, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> At Mon, 3 Mar 2003 01:51:58 -0800,
> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:19:11PM +0900, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Do you have any other FreeBSD box with FireWire?
> > > >
> > > > No, why?
> > >
> > > To send async. request to your laptop and see how it responses.
> > > Of course you can use other device/OS to generate such request but
> > > I don't know how to use them.
> >
> > I installed Red Hat 8 on my old laptop and it has firewire as well.
> > I'll nuke RH and reinstall FreeBSD. I don't use the laptop anyway
> > now, so I might as well do something useful with it :-)
>
> Make sure your old laptop has a OHCI chip. I heard some old sony laptop
> has a controller other than OHCI.
Pheeuw... It has... (at least according to Linux)
> The easiest way to do aync. request is using /dev/fwmem0.
> There are some examples in /sys/dev/firewire/00REAME using with ps,
> dmesg and so on.
> (sysctl node has changeg to 'hw.firewire.fwmem.eui64_{hi,lo})
> To test write request, dcons/fwchat is an interesting application.
> You can find it at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~simokawa/firewire/dcons-20030224.tar.gz
Thanks for the pointers. I thought about using fwe(4) myself, but
this may be easier...
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Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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