Re: Kino in Debian

David Liontooth wrote:
> Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438336 is 
> preventing kino from entering squeeze.
> 
> I noticed Stefan Richter posting here -- is it really the case that kino 
> can't use the new firewire stack?

The newer (now not so "new" anymore) firewire kernel drivers work very
well for applications like Kino and dvgrab now.  They actually did for
quite a while now.  But I at least did not push distributors to move to
the new drivers for reasons that were unrelated to Kino et al (IPv4,
DVB, audio support --- all solved in recent kernel releases now).

We have some information about this topic, targeted towards
distributors/ packagers and advanced users:
http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration

Furthermore, the release notes give a detailed view on which
improvements and fixes came in which release:
http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Release_Notes
http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Release_Notes_-_Libraries

For a works-out-of-the-box experience, kernel 2.6.31 (or later) and udev
144 or later are very much recommended.  At these versions, proper
mechanisms and policies for user access to FireWire devices arrived in
mainline udev.  (Somewhat late, sorry for that.  Other rules which are
not part of mainline udev can achieve the same with older kernels, as
documented in the kernel wiki.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
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