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authorLubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>2013-12-22 05:34:22 -0500
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2014-01-12 12:54:38 -0500
commit8bc588e0e585bc9085df75e84d4d5635f45cf360 (patch)
tree8dc98f31ce6330b1bd8670a42f60061e94481c68 /Documentation
parenta9954ce769e2c8b450b00ab2a4e208f447996b2d (diff)
firewire: ohci: Turn remote DMA support into a module parameter
This makes it possible to debug kernel over FireWire without the need to recompile it. [Stefan R: changed description from "...0" to "...N"] Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ Drivers
38 38
39The firewire-ohci driver in drivers/firewire uses filtered physical 39The firewire-ohci driver in drivers/firewire uses filtered physical
40DMA by default, which is more secure but not suitable for remote debugging. 40DMA by default, which is more secure but not suitable for remote debugging.
41Compile the driver with CONFIG_FIREWIRE_OHCI_REMOTE_DMA (Kernel hacking menu: 41Pass the remote_dma=1 parameter to the driver to get unfiltered physical DMA.
42Remote debugging over FireWire with firewire-ohci) to get unfiltered physical
43DMA.
44 42
45Because the firewire-ohci driver depends on the PCI enumeration to be 43Because the firewire-ohci driver depends on the PCI enumeration to be
46completed, an initialization routine which runs pretty early has been 44completed, an initialization routine which runs pretty early has been