Re: Status of FireWire/IEEE1394/SBP2 in FC2?

[RaXeT <maxer1 xmission com>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On May  4, 2004, "D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 21:13, shrek-m gmx de wrote:
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> > > http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/snapshots/FC1-firewire/0README
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> > Aha! Thank you for pointing this out to me. So FireWire support was
> > removed from the installer at the last minute
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> Err...  Nope.  It just never made it to the installer.
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> The situation with FC2 is a bit trickier, because the kernel ships
> without working firewire drivers.  My plan is to roll out updated
> boot.iso images with 2.6.3ish firewire drivers, that work for me, and
> then people will hopefully be able to use them just like they've used
> my FC1-firewire stuff.  If there's room for some more hoping :-),
> maybe we're lucky and the current firewire problems in the mainline
> kernel will get fixed and we'll be able to roll out kernel updates
> with it enabled...
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Well I just don't understand. I can compile the firewire drivers in any 
of the kernels.
Currently working very well in 2.6.5-1.350. Again why can't someone just 
go in
and make the drivers modules in any future kernel is beyond me. It's 
always worked
and I have had absolutely no hangups. Someone just decided to pull it 
from mainline
kernel with no reason what ever. Go figure.

Humor me.

RaXeT