I am working on the Linux IEEE-1394 (FireWire) Subsystem for a while now
and I just thought it would be a good idea to give a small status report.
IEEE-1394 is the name of a high-speed but low-cost serial bus. Apple
has trademarked it as "FireWire". Current implementations reach 200
Mbit/s, soon we will have 400 and then 800 and so on. FireWire is
designed for consumer multimedia (e. g. connecting a digital video
camera to your PC) and high-speed peripherals (hard disks, CD ROMs,
but also scanners, printers). Since it provides quality of service
(guaranteed bandwith and bounded latency) it can also be used in
industrial real-time applications.
Support for Windows (NT) and Rhapsody is coming (some items are already
operational) but Linux users also want to benefit from this technology -
so I started the development as a university project last winter.
I have now a clearly designed subsystem, an Adaptec AIC-5800 driver
and some code to test it. Not all FireWire functions can be used now
but I have reached a point where the API is stable and other people
can also contribute work (e.g. a video camera driver).
So if you are interested in this, just write me an E-Mail - more
(wo)manpower is desperately needed.
Contact addresses:
WWW: http://www.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/~epirker/ieee1394/
E-Mail: epirker@edu.uni-klu.ac.at <Emanuel Pirker>
Other resources are
* a mailing list
You can subscribe by sending an empty email to
linux1394-subscribe@ftp.uni-klu.ac.at
(for those of you who are interested: this is not majordomo but ezmlm)
* a CVS repository
* a Web-CVS gateway
Bye,
Emanuel
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Emanuel Pirker
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