FreeBSD and Firewire

[Neil Ford]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:27:36 +0000, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:09:11PM +0000, Neil Ford wrote:
>>  Can anyone point me at, or know themselves, something that tells me the 
>>  current situation regarding firewire support under FreeBSD?
>>  
>>  I'm wanting to hang a couple of large firewire disks off of a FreeBSD 
>>  box, so nothing fancy (no DV support required, etc.).
> 
> I don't know how well it works, but firewire support went into -
> CURRENT in the
> last few months and has been backported to -STABLE.  4.8 should have some
> support.  As to how well it works, I don't know...
> 
> For details, have a look in /sys/dev/firewire.  Possibly also at cvsweb:
> 
> 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/firewire/
> 
> I don't know where firewire is discussed.  It's probably best to mail the
> author of the code and ask him.  That would appear to be 
> simokawa at freebsd.org,
> looking at the changelogs...
> 
Thanks for the pointers... off to look for more info.

Neil.