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40 .Nd IEEE1394 High-performance Serial Bus
42 .Cd "kldload firewire"
48 .In bus/firewire/firewire.h
51 provides machine-independent bus support and raw drivers for
57 driver consists of two layers: the controller and the
59 The controller attaches to a physical bus
64 bus attaches to the controller.
65 Additional drivers can be attached to the bus.
67 Up to 63 devices, including the host itself, can be attached to
71 The root node is dynamically assigned with a PHY device function.
74 bus specific parameters,
75 e.g., node ID, cycle master, isochronous resource manager and bus
76 manager, are dynamically assigned, after bus reset is initiated.
79 bus, every device is identified by an EUI 64 address.
96 driver first appeared in
102 driver was written by
103 .An Katsushi Kobayashi
105 .An Hidetoshi Shimokawa