New Firewire Stack Testing - Success

[manoj.iyer at canonical.com]

Tim,

If the upload will happen this week, I believe JFO should be ready to 
issue a call for testing next week when he returns ?

Cheers
--- manjo

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Tim Gardner wrote:

> 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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