the fate of firewire

[Daniel Roesen]

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?


Regards,
Daniel