Re: generating firewire traffic

Carl Karsten <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.kino.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Stefan
Richter<[email protected]> wrote:
> /dev/dv1394/$n

> It's only of peripheral interest to kino-dev then. :-)
> ([email protected] and [email protected] cover kernel
> driver topics.)

Should I move this thread to that list?


> Well, you actually /can/ achieve something similar without camera or
> second PC or second card --- by /transmitting/ video (which works even
> if nothing is connected).

root@dhcp216:~# echo x|/dev/raw1394
bash: /dev/raw1394: Permission denied
bash: echo: write error: Broken pipe
root@dhcp216:~# ls -l /dev/raw1394
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 171, 0 2009-06-13 16:03 /dev/raw1394

> But different DMA units of the controller and
> different DMA programming of the kernel drivers would be involved then,
> so you may get same or different results --- more likely different results.

OK, if the above is a dead end, I have no battle here.  (I am just
trying to gather facts in hopes it helps someone fix it.)

> /dev/raw1394 isn't cat-friendly.  But you could try testdv on it or
> something along the lines.

Where do I get testdv?

I have no /dev/raw1394*

# cat /dev/dv1394/$n
carl@dv67:~$ cat /dev/raw139/0 >/dev/null
cat: /dev/raw139/0: No such file or directory

carl@dv67:~$ ls /dev/raw1394*
/dev/raw1394
carl@dv67:~$ dmesg|grep 1394
[    1.669470] ohci1394 0000:02:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNK1] -> GSI 5
(level, low) -> IRQ 5
[    1.726124] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[5]
MMIO=[f6100000-f61007ff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
[    3.018639] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[008088030a613f59]
[    3.018706] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[00241b00964cac00]
[    4.499059] ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized


-- 
Carl K

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