libraw1394/NEWS

libraw1394 Release Notes

Version 2.1.1:
- Fix backwards moving cycle timer in isochronous transmit.
  The problem has been observed with audio I/O on different systems.
- Fix crash with SIGBUS on SPARC and similar architectures.
- Fix memory leak in address range mapping response handler.
- Fix errno reporting to applications which relied on behavior of
  libraw1394 1.x.
- Fix errno checking in the dumpiso and sendiso example programs.
- Minor documentation improvement.

Version 2.1.0:
- Behavior changes of the backend to firewire-core:
    - The isochronous reception buffer is now mapped read/writable
      rather than read-only.  The raw1394 backend already maps the
      buffer read/writable too.  Note that writing into the buffer
      will go wrong on architectures without cache-coherent DMA if
      the CPU and the OHCI write within the same cacheline region,
      so use this feature with caution.
    - Decrease memory footprint of IR and IT buffers by avoiding
      some internal rounding up of the buffer size.
- New APIs in <libraw1394/raw1394.h>:
    - raw1394_add_config_rom_descriptor():
      Add contents to the Configuration ROM of the local node(s).
      At runtime, this API is only available if running on top of
      firewire-core.  It could probably also be implemented with
      the raw1394 kernel driver if anybody cared.
    - raw1394_remove_config_rom_descriptor():
      Counterpart to raw1394_add_config_rom_descriptor().
    - raw1394_read_cycle_timer_and_clock():
      Like the existing raw1394_read_cycle_timer(), but lets the
      caller choose between CLOCK_REALTIME (which the former call
      is always using), CLOCK_MONOTONIC, or CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW.
      For example, this enables libffado's audio streaming to run
      undisturbed by resets of CLOCK_REALTIME.
      At runtime, this call requires firewire-core underneath.
    - raw1394_get_speed():
      Returns the speed code of the maximum possible transmission
      speed between a given node and the local node.  This takes
      maximum speeds of all participating PHYs and the two links
      into account.  This can be used to configure the speed of
      isochronous streams.
      At runtime, this call requires firewire-core underneath.
    - enum raw1394_iso_speed was extended by
      RAW1394_ISO_SPEED_800, _1600, and _3200.
- New APIs in <libraw1394/ieee1394.h>:
    - Added preprocessor constants
      L1394_SPEED_BETA, L1394_SPEED_800, _1600, and _3200.
- testlibraw1394:
  Added unit tests of the new APIs.

Version 2.0.9:
- Fix that raw1394_iso_recv_flush() did not have any effect when running
  on firewire-core alias juju kernel drivers.  Requires kernel 3.4 or
  later.
- Remove build-time dependency on linux-headers.  Before, if too old
  kernel headers were present on the build system, features and fixes
  would be silently omitted from the build.
- Remove --with-fw-dir configure switch which is no longer useful.
- Janitorial fixes.

Version 2.0.8:
- Configuration ROM access via raw1394_read() is dramatically faster and
  very robust now.  We read the kernel's Configuration ROM cache instead
  of the actual register of the FireWire device.
- Internally retry raw1394_read/write/lock/lock64() after ack-busy
  response.  Most notably this fixes control of some older Panasonic and
  Grundig camcorders.
- small bug fixes

Version 2.0.7:
- Fix playback to some audio devices based on the DICE chipset.

Version 2.0.6:
- Bug fixes, notably for FCP and request reception on firewire-core.
  Note, several of these updates are only built into libraw1394 if
  linux-headers 2.6.36 or later are present at build time.

Version 2.0.5:
- Bug fixes, in particular, for isochronous transmission and FFADO project.

Version 2.0.4:
- Fix build due to incomplete tarball.

Version 2.0.3:
- various bug fixes, in particular for firewire stack

Version 2.0.2:
- Fixed license headers on new files introduced in v2.0.0 to be consistent
  with LGPL v2.1.

Version 2.0.1:
- Optimized usage of /dev/fw? nodes based upon user permissions.
- many good bugfixes

Version 2.0.0:
- added support for new firewire subsystem.
- removed deprecated isochronous functions.

Version 1.3.0:
- added raw1394_read_cycle_timer() as used by FFADO project.
- added support for environment variable RAW1394DEV to override default
  device node /dev/raw1394.
- added --with-valgrind to configure script.
- other optimizations and bugfixes - see ChangeLog.

Version 1.2.1:
- generate compiler warnings on deprecated functions (legacy isochronous).
- bugfixes and optimizations.

Version 1.2.0:
- added constants useful for ARM: transaction and response return codes.
- added raw1394_bandwidth_modify() and raw1394_channel_modify().

Version 1.1.0:
- added ability to specify the isochronous receive mode in the new
  rawiso (raw1394_iso_*) API. Therefore, the signature of 
  raw1394_iso_recv_init() changed, and likewise, the libtool/.so version
  numbers changed to reflect a new interface that is not backwards compatible!
- added raw1394_arm_set_buf() and raw1394_arm_get_buf() functions.
- added raw1394_new_handle_on_port() to make initialization simpler.
- make versioning consistent and updated. 1.0.0 was reported by pkg-config in 
  0.10 series; hence, 1.1.0 in this release.
- removed outdated, bogus "linking required only" version symbols in 
  version.c - use pkg-config now.
- dropped libraw1394.m4 - use pkg-config now.
- added RPM spec file.
- deprecate old isochronous API.
- move API comment documentation to header and reformat header comments as
  kernel-doc (use linux/scripts/kernel-doc to extract and format them).
- updated tools/dumpiso and tools/sendiso to new isochronous API.

Version 0.10:

- merged in the rawiso branch
- add sendiso and dumpiso tools with man files
- fix wrong error mapping on local transactions in raw1394_errcode_to_errno().
- added comment headers for most exported functions
- merged in weihs branch which brings new functionality including address
  range mapping, reading and writing configROM images, additional bus reset
  handling, and others.

Version 0.9:

- error reporting reworked to be more C library style; functions affected are
  mainly raw1394_read(), raw1394_write(), raw1394_lock;
  Source incompatibility!  Parts need to be adapted in application code, but
  it's well worth it.
- the generation number is not unconditionally updated on bus reset in the event
  loop anymore, the new function raw1394_update_generation() has to be used
  (unless the default bus reset handler is used) so that transactions won't fail
- iso handlers used to get the iso header quadlet in host endian, now they get
  it in big endian like the rest of the packet for consistency
- testlibraw gets installed now, man page also included
- (not yet complete) documentation in Docbook format included
- libraw1394.m4 autoconf macro added

Version 0.8:

- added libraw1394/ieee1394.h with useful defines (especially ack and rcodes)
- function to query isochronous resource manager ID
- functions for isochronous sending
- new raw1394_reset_bus() function to reset the bus

Version 0.7:

- added support for environments where the kernel runs in 64 bit mode whereas
  user space runs in 32 bit mode
- fixed lock transaction to actually return the required response; these
  functions are actually useful now, prototypes for raw1394_start_lock and
  raw1394_lock changed
- a void pointer can now be stored as user data with a handle

Version 0.6:

- FCP monitoring added
- not really libraw1394 news: the subsystem doesn't swap data anymore,
  everything is to be kept big endian now on all architectures

Version 0.5:

- there are now separate iso handlers for each channel

Version 0.4:

- isochronous receive support

Version 0.3:

- first release of new libraw1394 for new raw1394 driver
- supports 1394 async reads/writes
- maintainer: Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de>