[RFC] Maverick - switch to new firewire stack.

[Mario Limonciello]

Manoj:

Can you set this up on a PPA sooner for testing?  I know one of the
consumers of firewire is the myth* community, so their input would be good.

Thanks,

On 05/20/2010 01:44 PM, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> During Lucid beta cycle we noticed that certain fire-wire drives don't 
> mount. I did some investigation and I proposed that we switch from the old 
> stack to the new stack in a blueprint:
>
> https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kernel-maverick-firewire-stack
>
> * upstream recommends that distros should switch to the new stack, all new 
> bug fixes, security fixes, and features will be in the new stack. Here is 
> a link to bugzilla where known issues with the old driver are recorded but 
> wont be fixed. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10046 . Wiki 
> page on kernel.org says that there are some fundamental design & security 
> issues with the old stack and that prompted the re-write of the stack.
>
> * as per the proposed blueprint, the old drivers will be blacklisted and 
> new drivers will be white-listed, this will be done as a fall back for 
> users who experience issues migrating to the new drivers. Kernel config 
> options are enabled already to build both old and new stack.
>
> * as per the new fire-wire stack migration guide ( juju migration guide ), 
> user space libraries should already work with the new drivers. We need 
> help from foundations team to
>   1. verify that the libraries listed in the migration guide, libraw1394 
> and libdc1394, are installed are of the correct latest version. As per 
> documentation the core libraries were already compatible back in 2008.
>   2. modify udev rules to give /dev/fw* user access privilege, so that 
> groups like video can read /dev/fw* as non root. As per the migration 
> guide, rules have been merged into /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules 
> of udev v144.
>   3. blacklist ohci1394 sbp2 eth1394 dv1394 raw1394 video1394 and 
> whitelist firewire-ohci firewire-sbp2 firewire-core firewire-net in 
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire.conf. As far as I can see this is the 
> only real change that needs to happen to make this switch.
>
> * it will be desirable to make this switch before alpha1 and get it 
> tested by community and also develop some tests targeted at firwire and 
> include them in the kernel-qa suite. Kernel bug triage will issue a call 
> for testing & track bugs against the new stack.
>
> thoughts ?
>
> Cheers
> --- manjo
>
>   

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*Mario Limonciello*
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