FWCONTROL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual FWCONTROL(8)NAMEfwcontrol — FireWire control utility
SYNOPSISfwcontrol [-rt] [-c node] [-d node] [-o node] [-s node] [-l file]
[-g gap_count] [-b pri_req] [-R filename] [-S filename]
DESCRIPTION
The fwcontrol utility is designed to provide a way for users to access
and control the FireWire subsystem. Without options, fwcontrol will out‐
put a list of devices those are/were connected to the bus.
-r Initiate bus reset.
-t Show the topology map.
-c node
Show the configuration ROM on the node.
-d node
Hex dump of the configuration ROM.
-o node
Send a link-on phy packet to the node.
-s node
Write to RESET_START register on the node.
-l file
Load hex dump file of the configuration ROM and parse it.
-g gap_count
Broadcast gap_count by phy_config packet.
-i pri_req
Set PRIORITY_BUDGET register on all supported nodes.
-R filename
Receive DV stream and dump it to a file. Use Ctl-C to stop the
receiving. Some DV cameras seem not to send the stream if a bus
manager exits. If you cannot get the stream, try the following
commands.
sysctl hw.firewire.try_bmr=0; fwcontrol-r
The resulting file contains raw DV data excluding isochronous
header and CIP header. It can be handled by libdv in the
pkgsrc(7) collection.
-S filename
Send a DV file as isochronous stream.
FILES
/dev/fw0
EXAMPLES
Each DV frame has fixed size and it is easy to edit those frame order.
fwcontrol-R original.dv
Receive stream.
dd if=original.dv of=first.dv bs=120000 count=30
Get first 30 frames(NTSC).
dd if=original.dv of=second.dv bs=120000 skip=30 count=30
Get second 30 frames(NTSC).
cat second.dv first.dv | fwcontrol-S /dev/stdin
Swap first and second 30 frames and send them to DV recorder.
For PAL, replace 'bs=120000' with 'bs=144000'.
SEE ALSOfirewire(4), fwe(4), fwohci(4), sbp(4)HISTORY
The fwcontrol utility first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
AUTHORS
Hidetoshi Shimokawa ⟨simokawa@FreeBSD.org⟩
BUGS
This utility is still under development and provided for debug purpose.
BSD December 30, 2002 BSD
