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FIREWIRE(4)		 BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual		   FIREWIRE(4)

NAME
     firewire -- IEEE1394 High-performance Serial Bus

SYNOPSIS
     device firewire

     #include <dev/firewire/firewire.h>

DESCRIPTION
     FreeBSD provides machine-independent bus support and raw drivers for
     firewire interfaces.

     The firewire driver consists of two layers: the controller	and the	bus
     layer.  The controller attaches to	a physical bus (like pci(4)).  The
     firewire bus attaches to the controller.  And the additional driver can
     be	attached to the	bus.

     Up	to 63 devices, including the host itself, can be attached to a
     firewire bus.  The	root node is dynamically assigned with PHY device
     function.	Also, the other	firewire bus specific parameters, e.g.,	node
     ID, cycle master, isochronous resource manager and	bus manager, are dy-
     namically assigned, after bus rest	is initiated.  On firewire bus,	every
     device is identified with EUI 64 address.

SEE ALSO
     fwohci(4),	pci(4),	sbp(4)

HISTORY
     The firewire driver first appeared	in FreeBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS
     The firewire driver was written by	Katsushi Kobayashi and Hidetoshi
     Shimokawa for the NetBSD project.

BSD				 May 23, 2002				   BSD

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