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Release Notes: Libraries

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libraw1394

See also Libraries#libraw1394.

libraw1394 2.1.2

3 April 2016

Fix build with some alternative C libraries and with some older build environments. No functional changes.

libraw1394 2.1.1

28 April 2015

  • Fix backwards moving cycle timer in isochronous transmit. The problem has been observed with audio I/O on different systems.
  • Fix crash with SIGBUS on SPARC and similar architectures.
  • Fix memory leak in address range mapping response handler.
  • Fix errno reporting to applications which relied on behavior of libraw1394 1.x.
  • Fix errno checking in the dumpiso and sendiso example programs.
  • Minor documentation improvement.

libraw1394 2.1.0

29 July 2012

Behavior changes of the backend to firewire-core:

  • The isochronous reception buffer is now mapped read/writable rather than read-only. The raw1394 backend already maps the buffer read/writable too. Note that writing into the buffer will go wrong on architectures without cache-coherent DMA if the CPU and the OHCI write within the same cacheline region, so use this feature with caution.
  • Decrease memory footprint of IR and IT buffers by avoiding some internal rounding up of the buffer size.

New APIs in <libraw1394/raw1394.h>:

  • raw1394_add_config_rom_descriptor():
    Add contents to the Configuration ROM of the local node(s). At runtime, this API is only available if running on top of firewire-core. It could probably also be implemented with the raw1394 kernel driver if anybody cared.
  • raw1394_remove_config_rom_descriptor():
    Counterpart to raw1394_add_config_rom_descriptor().
  • raw1394_read_cycle_timer_and_clock():
    Like the existing raw1394_read_cycle_timer(), but lets the caller choose between CLOCK_REALTIME (which the former call is always using), CLOCK_MONOTONIC, or CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW.
    For example, this enables libffado's audio streaming to run undisturbed by resets of CLOCK_REALTIME.
    At runtime, this call requires firewire-core underneath.
  • raw1394_get_speed():
    Returns the speed code of the maximum possible transmission speed between a given node and the local node. This takes maximum speeds of all participating PHYs and the two links into account. This can be used to configure the speed of isochronous streams.
    At runtime, this call requires firewire-core underneath.
  • enum raw1394_iso_speed was extended by RAW1394_ISO_SPEED_800, _1600, and _3200.

New APIs in <libraw1394/ieee1394.h>:

  • Added preprocessor constants L1394_SPEED_BETA, L1394_SPEED_800, _1600, and _3200.

testlibraw1394:

  • Added unit tests of the new APIs.

libraw1394 2.0.9

2 June 2012

  • Fix that raw1394_iso_recv_flush() did not have any effect when running on firewire-core alias juju kernel drivers. This fix needs kernel 3.4 or later at runtime; on older kernels raw1394_iso_recv_flush() will remain uneffective on firewire-core as before.
  • Remove build-time dependency on linux-headers. Before, if too old kernel headers were present on the build system, features and fixes would be silently omitted from the build. Now all features and fixes are built in a fully forwards and backwards compatible manner.
  • Remove --with-fw-dir configure switch which is no longer useful.
  • Janitorial fixes.

libraw1394 2.0.8

19 February 2012

  • Performance improvement: Configuration ROM access via raw1394_read() is dramatically faster and very robust now. We read the kernel's Configuration ROM cache instead of the actual register of the FireWire device.
  • Interoperability fix: Internally retry raw1394_read/write/lock/lock64() after ack-busy response. Most notably this fixes control of some older Panasonic-based camcorders, e.g. Panasonic NV-DX110, Panasonic AG-EZ30, and Grundig Scenos DLC 2000.
  • Small bug fixes.

libraw1394 2.0.7

8 March 2011

Fixes playback to some audio devices based on the DICE chipset.

libraw1394 2.0.6

1 November 2010

This release brings again several fixes for using libraw1394 on top of the firewire-core kernel driver (as opposed to raw1394 which is going to be removed in kernel 2.6.37). Notably, request reception a.k.a. address range mapping was fixed to report proper sender node IDs and extended tcodes to the application.

Note, this and some of the other updates require linux-headers 2.6.36 or later to be present when libraw1394 is being built. Otherwise, the fixes will not be built into the library, and libraw1394 will behave mostly like v2.0.5 did. (Likewise, kernel 2.6.36 is required at runtime for some of these updates to be in effect. You can run brand new libraw1394 on older kernels and vice versa, but you would miss those fixes and features.)

libraw1394 2.0.5

26 December 2009

Bug fixes, in particular for isochronous transmission and FFADO project.

libraw1394 2.0.4

30 June 2009

Build fix for the tarball release.

libraw1394 2.0.3

30 June 2009

Some bug fixes, notably:

  • Build fix (Gentoo bug 272540).
  • Fix a memory leak when running on the new firewire stack.

Functional enhancements for the new firewire stack (no libraw1394 API change involved):

  • Enable channel and bandwidth management functions even if access to the IRM's /dev/fw* is denied.
  • Provide accurate isoch packet reception timestamps.
  • Add as yet unimplemented juju versions of broadcast requests and async streams.

These changes are only available with kernel-headers 2.6.30 or later at build time and kernel 2.6.30 or later at runtime.

libraw1394 2.0.2

3 February 2009

Fixed license headers on new files introduced in v2.0.0 to be consistent with LGPL v2.1. No code changes since version 2.0.1.

libraw1394 2.0.1

15 January 2009

  • Optimized usage of /dev/fw* nodes based upon user permissions.
  • many bugfixes

libraw1394 2.0.0

18 July 2008

  • added support for the new firewire kernel subsystem. (kernel headers 2.6.22 or better yet 2.6.24 should be installed to compile libraw1394 with this feature)
  • removed deprecated isochronous functions.

libraw1394 1.3.0

13 October 2007

  • added raw1394_read_cycle_timer() as used by FFADO project.
  • added support for environment variable RAW1394DEV to override default device node /dev/raw1394.
  • added --with-valgrind to configure script.
  • other optimizations and bugfixes - see ChangeLog in the tarball.

libraw1394 1.2.1

8 April 2006

This is a maintenance release that fixes a couple of bugs and contains a slight memory handling optimization for isochronous I/O.

libraw1394 1.2.0

19 February 2005

One more preparation for the release of libiec61883 was to reorganize a couple of functions from libiec61883 into libraw1394 for better code reuse with other projects. These functions provide simple means to allocate and release isochronous channels and bandwidth.

libraw1394 1.1.0

29 November 2004

Yes, the version number difference to the previous version seems odd, but it is correct. The .so version numbers were bumped a major level with no backward compatibility as well due to an interface change in the new generation isochronous API. The change allows one to specify a capture mode, and it is required by the forthcoming libiec61883, our third generation streaming media I/O library. This release also includes updated API reference documentation. All comments for function documentation were moved into the main header, raw1394.h for convenience to programmers that like to refer to headers. Finally, two functions were added for the ARM feature to allow getting and setting the kernel buffer.


libiec61883

See also Libraries#libiec61883.

libiec61883 1.2.0

15 January 2009

  • Fixed PID handling in MPEG2-TS.
  • Added iec61883_cip_resync().
  • Silence some warnings in CMP that may needlessly alarm users.
  • Improved validation of DV packets in dv_fb.
  • bugfixes

libiec61883 1.1.0

24 September 2006

This is a maintenance release that contains some minor fixes and cleanups, but it also requires libraw1394 1.2.1 to prevent aborts and halts in isochronous transmission.

libiec61883 1.0.0

8 April 2005

After many months of hard work, the first release of libiec61883 is now available. This library provides third generation media reception and transmission for DV, MPEG2-TS, and AMDTP (audio and music) using only raw1394 and not the complicated setup and maintenance of other kernel modules and their /dev nodes. This is not just an early development release. It is already quite capable and robust. Already, MythTV 0.17 supports MPEG2-TS, FreeBob is using AMDTP, and a soon-to-be-released dvgrab 2.0 is being used in a heavy, 24/7 production environment. We encourage all developers and applications to migrate to this library as support for dv1394, amdtp, and cmp modules are being phased out as well as DV and MPEG2-TS applications of video1394.

NOTE: libiec61883 requires libraw1394 1.2.0.


libavc1394

See also Libraries#libavc1394.

libavc1394 0.5.3

21 May 2006

  • bugfixes
  • new avc1394_transaction_block2() function that returns the length of the response.
  • Panel subunit indirect mode constants added to header.
  • new panelctl utility based upon 6200ch and 6200cmd from MythTV developers.

Version 0.5.2 remained unreleased.

libavc1394 0.5.1

  • bugfixes

libavc1394 0.5.0

libavc1394 has had quite a bit of new functionality hanging around in its CVS for a couple of years. Some of this was reorganized into forthcoming libiec61883. The new features include the ability to make simple changes to config rom images. This was a natural and convenient extension of the existing librom1394 functionality, not as comprehensive as ieee1394/csr1212. It adds bits needed to support AMDTP applications. Finally, it adds bits needed to make development of target mode applications easier including an example avc_vcr.c.

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