Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:18:45PM +0200, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>Because SL3 "supports" firewire and SL4 does not, some user asked for 
>>firewire support in SL4.
>>
>>Therefore I have some questions:
>>
>>Has anybody any experience with firewire and SL4?
>>Has anybody compiled the firewire modules for the SL4 kernel with out 
>>recompiling the SL4 kernel?
> 
> 
> Red Hat turned off the kernel support for firewire due to stability
> issues:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-February/msg00235.html
> 
> I don't think any newer RHEL4 kernel has patched up anything in this
> area, at least not according to the changelogs.
> 
> So, if you do want to build kernel modules for SL4, you probably
> shouldn't use the firewire sources that ship with this kernel,
> otherwise you will run into issues.
> 
> Oracle has packages for adding firewire to RHEL4:
> 
> http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/files/RedHat/RHEL4/
> 
> I don't know what sources they use (and don't know where their src.rpm
> is).
> 

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/files/
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/files/source/
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/dist/files/source/oracle-firewire-modules-1286.tar.gz

There is a spec file in there, but it's too generic, you can't do a 
rpmbuild -ta on the tarball.

Troy

> 
>>What's about libraw1394 and libavc1394 for SL4? Take the one from ATrpms?
>>What's about firewire and hotplug support in SL4?
>>
>>If nobody has done anything, I will try to do it.
>>I will create something like 
>>kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL*.rpm. And I will test firewire on 
>>SL4.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>   Urs
> 
> 


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