Re: the fate of firewire

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 10:50 +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:33:34AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > there still appears to be problems with firewire, even in UP kernels.
> > This makes me not happy ;-(
> > 
> > The problem seems to mostly be people who do have a firewire controller
> > but no firewire devices, and the symptoms are general "hangs during
> > bootup sequence". 
> > 
> > We already disabled firewire in smp kernels for this, but I fear that if
> > things don't improve really soon that firewire becomes unkeepable for UP
> > kernels as well.....
> 
> Could you please think about prolonging the FC1 support cycle until
> there is a usable 2.6-based distro out there?

If you are interested in longer support for FC1, join the Fedora Legacy
project:
http://fedoralegacy.org/

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