[openbeos] Re: firewire?
- From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:07:35 +0100
On 2007-02-20 at 17:24:29 [+0100], Andrew McCall <andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 20/02/07, Karl vom Dorff <haikubounties@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm wondering if a firewire stack will be part of Haiku as Be had one.
> > I've
> > never really heard anything mentioned in this regard.
>
> I was interested in this, so I did a quick Google and found that
> FreeBSD have a Firewire stack in their CVS. It looks like its not
> been touched for a while though:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/firewire/
>
> Intel have specs for OHCI for Firewire available for download:
>
> http://developer.intel.com/technology/1394/download/ohci_11.htm
>
> It may be possible that the OHCI stuff for USB could be re-used for
> 1394 reducing the amount of work needed. I don't know how high
> priority this would be, seeing as you seem to be the first person
> asking for it :)
While USB has pretty much replaced it as interface for storage devices,
it's still the standard for DV camcorders. So it's definitely a must-have
for our desktop OS to-be. Maybe even for R1.
CU, Ingo
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