fwcontrol: unknown format 0x1e

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Sep 30 07:21:42 PDT 2005


Erik Nørgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > I don't know anything about Firewire, and can't seem to get through to
> > the specs, but a look at the code tells me that the only format that
> > receive routine knows is CIP_FMT_DVCR (which happens to be zero).
> > You'll need someone who can figure out what the format you're getting
> > means, and how to handle it.  The recent comitters to the fwcontrol
> > utility would be a good place to start.
> 
> Just when you wrote it occured to me that I should try downgrading
> since I'm on 6.0-BETA4. I looked at the time stamps of the code and it
> appears that changes has been applied to fwdev.c in august.

Do you have reason to think it worked in the past?  It doesn't look
like anything changed that would affect the format check.

> I hope that works, otherwise I'd try going futher back in time,
> changes were applied to fwcontrol.c and fwohci_pci.c in may. And if I
> still have no luck, back to march.
> 
> I'm a bit currious: Looking at 5.4 STABLE all files in sys/dev/firewire
> have timestamp 2005/01/30 but in 6.0-BETA4 files have timestamp
> 2005/01/06 or some other date... Any explanation for this?

MFC on 30 January.  
http://be-well.ilk.org/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#DEFINE-MFC


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