New Firewire Stack Testing - Success

[Tim Gardner]

module-init-tools is uploaded and should appear in the archive presently.

rtg

On 06/30/2010 09:30 AM, manoj.iyer at canonical.com wrote:
>
> 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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