The problem is having enough developer time, experience, and *equipment* to get the drivers cleaned up. I have neither the time nor the developer experience. Nor the inclination; I don't own any MP machines (and thus not the equipment). Call me selfish, but I have things I'd rather be working on. it's not glamorous work. But that's just me. I understand how frustrating it is. the firewire mailing list used to be probably 30-50% problems that ended up being SMP/UP issues. I don't monitor the list anymore, so I have no clue if that's still the case. - Kevin On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:38:10 -0500 (CDT), Phil Dybvig <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
