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Host Controllers

Agere / LSI

FW323 should work.

Old revisions of the FW643 might cause issues:

Agere Systems FW643 PCI Express1394b Controller (PHY/Link) (rev 06)

FW643-E or FW643-E2 should work:

Agere Systems FW643 PCI Express1394b Controller (PHY/Link) (rev 07) or (rev 08)

ALi

M5251/M5253/M5271: problematic

NEC

D72862/D72870/D72871/D72872/D72873/D72874: problematic

Ricoh

In general we have bad experiences with these. But sometimes they seem to work.

Unknown:

FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0552] (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Works for Arnold:

FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0552] (rev 08)

Seems to not work for most people (Exceptions - Scott reports 100% success with FFADO-2-RC1 UBS 8.10 on Jan 14th 2009. 100% success with FFADO-2-RC1 in Fedora 10. Pedro reports good performance (128x3) with ffado-svn (as of Nov 2009), kernel 2.6.31.6-rt19/Debian testing on a Lenovo T400 laptop and cpufreq governor set to performance):

FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

SiS

Problematic: 00:02.3 FireWire? (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire? Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Texas Instruments

Supposed to work

VIA

For VT6306/7/8, the device ID is the same; the actual chip is given by the revision:

  • VT6306 (rev 46): Does not work for at least one user:
    VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 46)
    VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46)
    
    The controller is a VIA VT6306 on a Tekram "KEC L1582V" PCI card.
  • VT6307 (rev 80): Works for adi:
    VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev 80)
    VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
    
  • VT6308 (rev c0): should work:
    VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev c0)
    VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev c0)
    

PCI Express:

  • VT6315: should work