Firewire missing in FC2 SMP kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2
Phil Dybvig
fedora at ducksoup.afree.net
Fri Aug 13 18:38:10 UTC 2004
Kevin --
>Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:56:27 -0700
>From: Kevin Wang <rightsock at gmail.com>
>UP vs SMP being broken with firewire? Unlikely to be fixed any time
>soon. It's been broken for YEARS. The problem is that too few people
>have SMP systems. It's also hard to test whether a given driver is
>really thread-safe.
>
>You'll just have to restrict firewire usage to UP machines/kernels.
This is a shame because it would be natural for a video editing workstation to
use firewire for video capture and SMP horsepower for rendering.
-- Phil
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