ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip.
There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX
card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model.
The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that
receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer
copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha.
Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms.
The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer
mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which
can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor
for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion
queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128
descriptors and the receive ring has 256.
This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus
so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF
and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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Recent versions of 3.0-current have the bktr driver built in. Older versions
of 3.0 and all versions of 2.2 need to have the driver files installed by hand:
cp ioctl_bt848.h /sys/i386/include/
cp brktree_reg.h brooktree848.c /sys/pci/
In /sys/conf/files add:
pci/brooktree848.c optional bktr device-driver
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In all cases you will need to add the driver to your kernel:
In your kernel configuration file:
controller pci0 #if you already have this line don't add it.
device bktr0
There is no need to specify DMA channels nor interrupts for this
driver.
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Finally you need to create nodes for the driver:
Create a video device:
mknod /dev/bktr0 c 92 0
Create a tuner device:
mknod /dev/tuner0 c 92 16
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The code attempts to auto-probe code to detect card/tuner types.
The detected card is printed in the dmesg as the driver is loaded. If
this fails to detect the proper card you can override it in brooktree848.c:
#define OVERRIDE_CARD <card type>
where <card type> is one of:
CARD_UNKNOWN
CARD_MIRO
CARD_HAUPPAUGE
CARD_STB
CARD_INTEL
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This model now separates the "tuner control" items into a minor device:
minor device layout: xxxxxxxx xxxT UUUU
UUUU: the card (ie UNIT) identifier, 0 thru 15
T == 0: video device
T == 1: tuner device
Access your tuner ioctl thru your tuner device handle and anything
which controls the video capture process thru the video device handle.
Certain ioctl()s such as video source are available thru both devices.
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If your tuner does not work properly or is not recognized properly
try setting the tuner type via or card type:
sysctl -w hw.bt848.card=<integer> current valid values are 0 to 5 inclusive
sysctl -w hw.bt848.tuner=<integer> where integer is a value from 1 to 10
systcl -w hw.bt848.reverse_mute=<1 | 0> to reverse the mute function in the
driver set variable to 1.
The exact format of the sysctl bt848 variable is:
unit << 8 | value
unit identifies the pci bt848 board to be affected 0 is the first bt848
board, 1 is the second bt848 board.
value denotes the integer value for tuners is a value from 0 to 10 for
reversing the mute function of the tuner the value is 1 or 0.
to find out all the bt848 variables:
sysctl hw.bt848
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The bt848 driver consists of:
src/sys/i386/include/ioctl_bt848.h
src/sys/pci/brktree_reg.h
src/sys/pci/brooktree848.c
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