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FireWire on Mac OS X

FireWire is Apple’s implementation of the IEEE 1394 High Performance Serial Bus. Fast, hot-pluggable, and flexible, FireWire is a digital interface that supports daisy-chaining and branching for true peer-to-peer communication.

This chapter gives you a brief overview of FireWire. Then, it explains how the I/O Kit represents FireWire devices and describes the device interface libraries the IOFireWire family provides.

Contents:

FireWire Overview
In-Kernel FireWire Device Support
IOFireWire Family Device Interface Libraries

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