Re: FireWire support for Linux

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:02:30 +0200 (CEST)

On 17 Sep 1998, Aaron Passey wrote:
> Has anyone done any work to support FireWire under Linux? There seems
> to be several PCI FireWire cards available and even devices that have a
> FireWire port on them. You can, for example, get a converter turn FireWire
> into IDE intended to be used on CDROM drives. All of the high end camcorders
> these days seem to have a FireWire output.
>
> It seems like the easiest thing to do would be to treat the FireWire
> card as a SCSI card so CDROM support would come for free. You could use
> the generic SCSI driver for camcorders and scanners.
>
> Has this been started or should I look into writing it myself?

Yes. Check out the slides from the FireWire talk at Linux-Kongreß:

http://www.linux-kongress.de/backview98.html

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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