On 4/30/07, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The current firewire stack was evaluated by engineering, and the basic
conclusion was "no way do we want to have to support this ugly mess".
Note that for Fedora 7, we've started writing an entirely new firewire
stack[1]. The intention is that once that stack has been battle-tested a
bit, we'll port it to RHEL5. Initial hope was to have it ready for 5.1,
but I'm inclined to think it'll be more like 5.2.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFirewireJuJu
That's sort-of good news, but that decision really should have made it out
of your engineering meeting and out to the world. I already mentioned that
the educational reseller DLT was apparently under the impression Firewire
would be in EL5. It's been a hassle for us every time a researcher brings
in data on a Firewire drive; with EL4 I saved a particular kernel and used
Oracle's modules:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10gr2.html#8
I actually installed EL5 on a machine with firewire to eval; it was no big
deal since I have a nice kickstart setup, but it was a complete waste of
my time which could have been avoided by a sentence or two in the
Release Notes.
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