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IOFireWireUnitInterface

Overview

IOFireWireDeviceInterface is your primary gateway to the functionality contained in IOFireWireLib.

Discussion

You can use IOFireWireDeviceInterface to:

• perform synchronous read, write and lock operations
• perform other miscellanous bus operations, such as reset the FireWire bus.
• create FireWire command objects and interfaces used to perform synchronous/asynchronous read, write and lock operations. These include:
• IOFireWireReadCommandInterface
• IOFireWireReadQuadletCommandInterface
• IOFireWireWriteCommandInterface
• IOFireWireWriteQuadletCommandInterface
• IOFireWireCompareSwapCommandInterface
• create interfaces which provide a other extended services. These include:
• IOFireWirePseudoAddressSpaceInterface -- pseudo address space services
• IOFireWirePhysicalAddressSpaceInterface -- physical address space services
• IOFireWireLocalUnitDirectoryInterface -- manage local unit directories in the mac
• IOFireWireConfigDirectoryInterface -- access and browse remote device config directories
• create interfaces which provide isochronous services (see IOFireWireLibIsoch.h). These include:
• IOFireWireIsochChannelInterface -- create/manage talker and listener isoch channels
• IOFireWireLocalIsochPortInterface -- create local isoch ports
• IOFireWireRemoteIsochPortInterface -- create remote isoch ports
• IOFireWireDCLCommandPoolInterface -- create a DCL command pool allocator.

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Last Updated: 2009-02-23