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From: Gord P. <go...@sm...> - 2000-06-23 15:39:28
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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Sebastien Rougeaux wrote: > Yes, you have to set the attempt_root flag to 1 in the ohci1394.c file. > Some people complained about this a week ago, so I removed it, then realized > than the framegrabber won't work if the ohci card is not the root node. There is also an interesting discovery I have made about the ohci card becoming the root node. If you have a FireWire hub (at least, with my OrangeLink one) connected to the bus, then the card will never become the root node for some reason. This then causes the bus to be useless (can't communicate with anything on it). So, with me being biased by this problem, I have to ask the question: why wouldn't we want the host controller to always attempt to become the root node? From what I understand, if there are multiple contenders for the root node (ie. say two PCs are hooked together), then only one will become root after the self-ID phase anyways, and everything should work fine even if they are both attempting to become root. Perhaps I missed a discussion on this in my hiatus from the list? Gord |