Re: [FFADO-devel] Removal schedule of the ieee1394 kernel drivers

[Arnold K. <ar...@ar...>]

Hi,

On Saturday 22 May 2010 15:38:46 Stefan Richter wrote:
> Jonathan Woithe wrote:
> > Stefan Richter wrote:
> > In addition, recent posts on the ffado website basically say that the new
> > stack still doesn't work with ffado (or at the very least gives an
> > ambigious answer for new users):
> >   Is ffado running with the new firewire stack?
> >   The answer is kind of yes. ... The other answer is still no.

This is due to the fact that there are two ideas of running ffado on the new 
stack: one is to run the current ffado on the new stack. Which works since 
libraw1394 2.0.5 and kernel 2.6.32. And the second is to have ffado run 
natively on juju, that is without libraw1394 in between. And that is nowhere 
near working...

> Actually, an announcement of a concrete removal schedule is among else
> meant to help reduce confusion of that sort.
> 
> BTW, what is holding up a v2.0.1 release of your v2.0 branch?

That is planned, only I did not yet have enough time. And I would like to get 
some reassurance that the changes in the 2.0-branch work on juju...

> That
> would make the answer to above question as simple as it possibly can
> get:  The answer is YES if you have
>   - FFADO v2.0.1 or higher
>   - libraw1394 v2.0.5 or later (newest is recommended, 2.0.5 is current)
>   - kernel 2.6.32 or later (newest is recommended, 2.6.34 is current)
> Note how 2 out of 3 of the mentioned projects manage to get bug fixes
> pushed from their repos out into actual releases in a fairly timely
> manner.  ;-)