> > > 1. Firewire 400/800 support > > Don't know what features you have in mind (care to > expand?), but 800 is > not gonna happen, unless maybe someone from the > community contributes. > FireWire is dead man walking.
Huh? Granted most consumer stuff favors USB2.0 (or SATA for bulk storage), aren't there still a fair number of high end video cameras that use 1394b, or are they moving to HDMI? And for that matter, I can still find some 1394b drives or JBODs out there. If high-end video cameras are indeed using HDMI now, I would think that for video editing workstations, there must be some sort of HDMI input port (whatever DRM evils that may imply). Indeed, I found one just now: http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/12/blackmagic-design-announces-intensity-first-hdmi-pci-express-ca/ so maybe that's a sort of thing someone might want a driver for one day (give or take the DRM issues again). This message posted from opensolaris.org
