On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:48:33AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:42 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: > >> On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:25:59 am Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >>>> Under Mac OS X, system.log says "FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 31 built-in now > >>>> active". Could still be lucent though, judging by the subsys device ID of > >>>> 5811, which matches up w/the Lucent/Agere FW323. But no, apparently I > >>>> don't have the interesting one. > >>> Well, it's interesting in the sense that it's a "normal" OHCI then on a > >>> BE machine :-) My Pismo, which had the weirdo one, unfortunately died a > >>> while ago. I'll see if I can find another machine with that one in. > >> Ah, the pismo has it, eh? I think I may actually know of someone in the office > >> that still has one of those that I might be able to borrow and poke at... > > > > I -think- it has it... Pismo definitely has one of the first variant of > > UniNorth with "working" FW afaik. > > > > The first UniNorth was used in the first "toilet-seat" ibook, but I > > think this one didn't have firewire, or a non-working one... and in the > > first Sawtooth G4 for which FW and Ethernet even were separate PCI chips > > because the ones in UniNorth were too broken. > > > > It's possible that early G4 titanium powerbooks or other model of FW > > iBooks have that UniNorth FW variant too. > > Still no luck finding one here. The person I was thinking of has a > Lombard, which has no firewire. I did get ahold of a 667MHz Titanium, > but its got an Agere FW323. Pretty sure my old man actually has a Pismo, > but its about a 3000 mile drive over to my folks house. The search > continues... I wonder how many people still actually 1) have a machine > with this controller, 2) are running Linux on it and 3) use firewire > devices with it. Both of you, please speak up, we're trying to help you! > (if only out of morbid curiosity to see this mythical goofy controller). Definitely yes to 1) and 2), I have a Pismo which I use on a virtually daily basis (and about to remove the last remnants of MacOS on it). However I have disabled Firewire because it would not sleep and wake up properly. I can test it on Wednesday with a 5GB fireflly disk from 2001. Please tell me which configuration options I need to set for Firewire (which stack, etc...). Regards, Gabriel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
