New Firewire Stack Testing - Success

[Tim Gardner]

On 06/30/2010 09:10 AM, Pete Graner wrote:
> Manjo,
>
> I competed cursory testing of the new firewire stack.
>
> Video:
>
> dvgrab, kino: Was able to control the camera and grab video and write to
> file, both audio&  video worked fine.
>
> Harddisk:
>
> I tested a LaCie 1TB that has USB2, FW400&  FW800. I tested both the
> FW400&  FW800 by transferring 700GB of real files, to/from the firewire
> drive to a 1TB sata internal drive. All files were checksumed prior and
> the checksums matched after the transfers.
>
> All in all I would say its stable enough for enabling in the development
> kernels.
>
> ~pete

I performed a similar test on Lucid, so the new firewire stack was at 
least stable enough in 2.6.32 for disk transfers.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com