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| libraw1394 |
| ========== |
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| 1. About libraw1394 |
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| libraw1394 is the only supported interface to the kernel side raw1394 of |
| the Linux IEEE-1394 subsystem, which provides direct access to the connected |
| 1394 buses to user space. Through libraw1394/raw1394, applications can directly |
| send to and receive from other nodes without requiring a kernel driver for the |
| protocol in question. |
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| The reason for making a library the interface to the kernel is to avoid |
| a program dependancy on the kernel version, which would hinder development and |
| optimization of raw1394. If development changed the protocol and made it |
| incompatible with previous versions only the libraw1394 has to be upgraded to |
| match the kernel version (instead of all applications). |
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| 2. Copyleft |
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| libraw1394 itself is licensed under the Lesser General Public License |
| (short LGPL, see file COPYING.LIB in the source distribution). Other files in |
| the source archives not belonging to but being part of the build procedure of |
| libraw1394 are under their own licenses, as stated at the top of the individual |
| files. |
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| 3. API documentation |
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| Finally there is something, in the doc subdirectory. The file is |
| libraw1394.sgml (it's Docbook format), and there are preformatted PostScript and |
| HTML available. This documentation is not complete yet. |
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| 4. Multithreading |
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| This library should be multithreadable with the restriction that one |
| raw1394handle_t may be used only within a single thread. Multiple threads |
| operating on the same handle would royally mess up the kernel-user protocol. |
| Simply use separate handles for each thread in which you need to use libraw1394. |
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| 5. Pkg-config |
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| The library comes with a pkg-config .pc file, so you can check for |
| libraw1394 and its version in your configure script. For example, here is how |
| to use the autoconf macro: |
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| PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBRAW1394, libraw1394 >= 1.1.0) |
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| This macro sets the variables LIBRAW1394_CFLAGS and LIBRAW1394_LIBS. You |
| have to include those into your build variables so that the build process |
| correctly links with libraw1394. |
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| 6. Maintainer |
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| Maintainer of libraw1394 is currently Dan Dennedy. Send |
| suggestions, bug reports and fixes to linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. |
| See the file AUTHORS for a complete list of contributors to libraw1394. |
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| Visit http://www.linux1394.org/ for more information or to see what is new. |