Wanted: FireWire testers

[Andrew Farris]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>> If you're among those who have voiced concerns with the FireWire
>>> support in
>>> Fedora, particularly in the audio/video area, please do try to test
>>> out the
>>> latest rawhide kernels (2.6.24-0.149.fc7.git2.fc9 or later) and/or the
>>> 2.6.23.13 kernel working its way through koji right now[1].
> 
> Its built.
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.23.13/106.fc8/
> 
>>> As yet untested with this latest kernel is FireWire video capture off
>>> a cable
>>> box[3], but that's on my todo list for the weekend. (There's reason to
>>> believe
>>> this might be working now with the addition of dynamic buffer
>>> allocation).
> 
> Nope, still no dice. Will poke more soonish, I'm inclined to think its a
> userspace issue...
> 
>> As a perhaps odd case, is it likely to be possible to build an initrd
>> containing the firewire driver and have firewire drives included in md
>> devices recognized and matched correctly during boot-up?
> 
> Should be doable, yes. If you've got a line in modprobe.conf of 'alias
> scsi_hostadapterX firewire-sbp2' (for some value of X) and the array running
> when you create your initrd, it *should* automagically include the necessary
> modules in the initrd. I'd probably run mkinitrd -v by hand to see for sure.

I can confirm that the firewire-sbp2 driver will be included in initrd by kernel 
installs with that alias present, and it works at least for my single external 
firewire drive... I don't know about md devices though.  It doesn't work 
flawlessly, I have a problem with my drive causing some kernels not fail booting 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=349921) but I'm not sure if its the 
hardware's fault or not on that one.  But as the bug says once the kernel is 
running access to the drive is fine.

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