Status of FireWire/IEEE1394/SBP2 in FC2?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May  4, 2004, "D. D. Brierton" <darren at dzr-web.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 21:13, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
>> http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/snapshots/FC1-firewire/0README

> Aha! Thank you for pointing this out to me. So FireWire support was
> removed from the installer at the last minute

Err...  Nope.  It just never made it to the installer.

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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Alexandre Oliva             http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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