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 > > -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group __________________________________________________