Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:02:30 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: FireWire support for Linux |
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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
-- 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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