Something broke :-( Re: fwcontrol update

[Dieter]

>> So, is you camera working perfectly at this time?  I.e. with old 
>> fwcontrol, everything is fine?  My concern was that somehow we had 
>> triggered a bit in the firewire hardware(most likely the camera) that 
>> caused you camera to be non-functional.
>
> I think the camera itself is working.
>
> I think the NEC fw controller in the FreeBSD box is slightly messed up,
> resulting in lots of bus resets when the camera sends DV data.
>
> I'll try the VIA fw controller and see if -R works.  If it works,
> then we know the camera is fine.  Unfortunately I don't know if
> -R ever worked with the VIA.  -S definitely doesn't work properly
> with VIA.  I haven't been able to get the VIA to go into
> "non CYCLEMASTER mode", even using the -f option that works with
> the NEC.

I moved the cable from the NEC port (bus 1) to the VIA port (bus 0)

# fwcontrol -u 0 -f 0
send phy_config root_node=0 gap_count=-1

console says: nothing

# fwcontrol -u 0 -r

console says:

fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: BUS reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc1, gen=5, CYCLEMASTER mode	<-- should be non-CYCLEMASTER mode?  :-(
firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 1 (me)

# fwcontrol -u 0 -t
crc_len: 4 generation:5 node_count:2 sid_count:2
id link gap_cnt speed delay cIRM power port0 port1 port2 ini more
00    1       5  S100     0    1    0W     -     P         0    0
01    1       5  S400     0    1   15W     -     C         1    0

# fwcontrol -u 0 -R camera.dv
Detected DV format on input.
NTSC
012345678901234567890123456789
012345678901234567890123456789
012345678901234567890123456789

console says: nothing

I then powered down the camera, moved the cable back to the
NEC port, powered up, put the NEC into non-CYCLEMASTER mode,
ran fwcontrol -S and the DV file played fine.  So: the camera
itself works fine, and the VIA controller can do -R even in
CYCLEMASTER mode.

So I'm back to my theory that the NEC controller is slightly unhappy.
But what I'd really like, is a way to get the onboard VIA VT6307 controller
to do fwcontrol -S correctly.  The NEC controller card is using up a slot
I need for other things.