the fate of firewire

Matthias Saou thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Mon Sep 13 07:49:01 UTC 2004


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.....

Argh. C'mmon, I can't believe I'm the only geek to shoot hours and hours of
MiniDV and import/edit them on my Fedora Core laptop?? I actually need
firewire more than I need USB ;-)

Matthias

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