Re: Firewire missing in FC2 SMP kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2

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Kevin --

>Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:56:27 -0700
>From: Kevin Wang <rightsock@xxxxxxxxx>

>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.

This is a shame because it would be natural for a video editing workstation to 
use firewire for video capture and SMP horsepower for rendering.

-- Phil



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