UP vs SMP being broken with firewire? Unlikely to be fixed any time soon. It's been broken for YEARS. The problem is that too few people have SMP systems. It's also hard to test whether a given driver is really thread-safe. You'll just have to restrict firewire usage to UP machines/kernels. - Kevin On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:46:14 -0700, Rick Johnson <rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Lehmer wrote: > > (Copying you directly, Rick, because my last post on DVD writers to the > > list got dropped somehow.) > > > >> From: Rick Johnson <rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Subject: Firewire missing in FC2 SMP kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 > >> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Message-ID: <411AB3E9.5010405@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > >> > >> Went to mount my trusty firewire peerless on a machine I don't use too > >> often and noticed that the firewire modules were missing in the SMP > >> kernel. Was this an oversight of the kernel maintainer or is firewire > >> broken with SMP? > > > > > > See excellent write up at > > http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/snapshots/FC2-firewire/0README > > > > I had to build the module for SMP myself, following the instructions > > under section #3 in the above doc, and it just worked (I am using an el > > cheapo Belkin i.Link PCI card). > > Thanks - looks like building myself is the solution. For now, my lazy > workaround has been to boot the non-smp kernel when I needed to access > firewire devices. > > I'm using an Adaptec firewire card, and will post any problems if > encountered. > > Any speculation on whether this will be fixed by FC3 and subsequently RHEL4? > > -Rick > > > -- > Rick Johnson, RHCE #807302311706007 - rjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx > Linux/Network Administrator - Medata, Inc. > PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/rjohnson.asc > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
