the fate of firewire

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Mon Sep 13 14:46:26 UTC 2004


Am Montag, den 13.09.2004, 09:33 +0200 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.....

I'd like to bring up another solution again. Why not build it and put in
in a separate rpm. Ship it in an unsupported dir or something like that.
So those people that don't have any problems can install it easily. And
those who have problems can test easily and debug. 

-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>





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