Package: release-notes
When I boot Debian (Etch or Sarge) on my Blue&White PowerMac, with
the old TI PCILynx firewire chip on the motherboard, the pcilynx
driver crashes consistently. If I blacklist pcilynx, the crash goes
away, but I have no firewire capability.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux1394-devel
Looking at the archives of the Linux1394 developers mailinglist, it
appears that pcilynx on PPC hardware has been horribly broken for a
long time (at least since 2004). Furthermore, it looks like support
for pcilynx may be dropped entirely from the next generation of
ieee1394 drivers, regardless of CPU type.
I'd like to suggest that pcilynx be disabled in the Debian PPC
kernels, and a note to that effect be put in the release documents,
encouraging users who need firewire to avail themselves of one of the
cheap OHCI1394 cards.
Rick
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