> > > The
> > > point is that MP support is useless in 1.6, so folks wanting to run MP with
> > > a released version are screwed currently.
> >
> > Would this imply that 2.0 has firewire support?
> 
> I don't recall mentioning Firewire anywhere.

Never said you did.

My point is that firewire is useless in 1.6.2 (the most recent release).
If you need to talk to a firewire device there is no workaround.

Multiprocessor support is nice, but if you don't have it there are
workarounds.

> It does appear to be in the i386 GENERIC for 2.0, but commented out.  Why
> not try it?

Do you mean:


	# PCI IEEE1394 controllers
	#fwohci* at pci? dev ? function ?       # IEEE1394 Open Host Controller

	# CardBus IEEE1394 controllers
	#fwohci* at cardbus? dev ? function ?   # IEEE1394 Open Host Controller

	#fw*    at fwbus?                       # IP over 1394

	# IEEE1394 nodes
	#fwnode* at fwbus? idhi ? idlo ?
	#sbpscsi* at fwnode?
	#scsibus* at sbpscsi?

config says

	fwnode*: extraneous locators: devlo, devhi, oui
	sbpscsi*: unknown device `sbpscsi'
	scsibus* at sbpscsi?: `sbpscsi' unknown

config is happy with

	fwnode* at fwbus?

but still unhappy with with sbpscsi

Note that the ieee1394 files in 1.6.2 are pretty old:

-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    2310 Apr 30  2001 fwnodereg.h
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    6775 Jan 15  2002 fwohcivar.h
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc   19253 Jan 26  2002 fwohcireg.h
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    2480 Feb  2  2002 IMPLEMENTATION
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    3950 Feb 26  2002 sbp2reg.h
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    1556 Feb 26  2002 TODO
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    2431 Feb 26  2002 fwnodevar.h
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc     397 Feb 26  2002 files.ieee1394
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    4347 Feb 26  2002 ieee1394var.h
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    8376 Feb 26  2002 ieee1394reg.h
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    5991 Feb 26  2002 fwscsi.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    9154 Feb 26  2002 sbp2.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    8093 Mar  5  2002 if_fw.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc  107886 Mar 28  2002 fwohci.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  wsrc    9868 Apr  2  2002 fwnode.c