> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Tom Spindler wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I prefer a even nominally working method to a theoretically
> > better, not-existing-in-practice one. (I'd love to be proven wrong about
> > the 'not existing in practice'; it might encourage me to get a firewire
> > PC card for my laptop.)
> 
> Are there any systems with this kind of firewire support in practice?

FreeBSD seems to have some support of KGDB over firewire:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/firewire/00README
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Izumi Tsutsui