Do you have first hand experience successfully using Firewire on Sparc Linux?
If so, are you using Gentoo Sparc?
I have become addicted to Firewire on Mac OS X and Win ( ME, 2kPro, XP Pro). I have Hard Drives in external Firewire Enclosures and even a DVD burner (also installed in an external enclosure). With my Firewire-enabled Laptop ( Sony VAIO) and the external peripherals, I can get desktop performance out of my laptop AND very economical upgrades.
At 10:24 PM 5/30/2003 -0700, you wrote:
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On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:57:48PM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > It is "legacy free", using USB for both keyboard and mouse ( NOT the Sun > equivalent of the PS/2 or crappy optical 3-button mouse that I remember > using). > > It also has 2 Firewire ports, so when Linux Firewire support is "ready for > prime time"; I'm ready to climb aboard the Sparc Linux express.
Linux firewire works fine, it's just that most Firewire stuff should probably be based on the raw 1394 driver and it's currently not. There's also that sbp2 needs rescan-scsi-bus.sh because the kernel itself is not very hotplug-friendly, not even in the SCSI code.
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When the raw 1394 and sbp2 stuff is included in the Linux kernel that ships with the major distros, is my definition of "Ready for Prime time".
Rodney
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