Re: fw1 not created for dv-camera

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Interestingly, the two nodes start with gap count 44.  The camcorder must
> have sent a PHY config packet for that before the fw-ohci link was
> switched on.  The IRM in Sony DCR-TRV25 sets a gap count of 44 too.  I
> wonder who chose this, and why.  Perhaps somebody at camcorder vendor X
> chose it as "better as 63 but still safe for every hop count that will
> presumably ever happen in practice",

The gap count value for the _theoretical_ maximum of 16 hops is 43;
probably somebody decided to add one just to be sure (especially after
it was found out that IEEE1394-1995 had specified wrong gap counts that
were too small).


Regards,
Clemens