Documentation: correction to debugging-via-ohci1394

Rectify a factoid about firewire-ohci.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Also fix a typo spotted by Bernhard Kaindl.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Stefan Richter 2008-02-18 21:38:35 +01:00
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@ -36,14 +36,15 @@ available (notebooks) or too slow for extensive debug information (like ACPI).
Drivers Drivers
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The OHCI-1394 drivers in drivers/firewire and drivers/ieee1394 initialize The ohci1394 driver in drivers/ieee1394 initializes the OHCI-1394 controllers
the OHCI-1394 controllers to a working state and can be used to enable to a working state and enables physical DMA by default for all remote nodes.
physical DMA. By default you only have to load the driver, and physical This can be turned off by ohci1394's module parameter phys_dma=0.
DMA access will be granted to all remote nodes, but it can be turned off
when using the ohci1394 driver.
Because these drivers depend on the PCI enumeration to be completed, an The alternative firewire-ohci driver in drivers/firewire uses filtered physical
initialization routine which can runs pretty early (long before console_init(), DMA, hence is not yet suitable for remote debugging.
Because ohci1394 depends on the PCI enumeration to be completed, an
initialization routine which runs pretty early (long before console_init()
which makes the printk buffer appear on the console can be called) was written. which makes the printk buffer appear on the console can be called) was written.
To activate it, enable CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT (Kernel hacking menu: To activate it, enable CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT (Kernel hacking menu: