Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12

While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle. With Firewire hardware increasingly rare, the maintainer is hoping to get this Linux 6.12 code better tested by the community...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firewire-Linux-6.12

[jeisom]

I think I only have one firewire device and I recently bought a pcie card to use it on my current setup and installed. Need to get around to seeing if everything works properly. For my setup I could probably get by with an older kernel in qemu with iscsi, but good to know that someone is intending to be support it a while longer.

[NomadDemon]

I have only external PCI (old one) to firewire controller and 1 firewire audio interface (28 ports), dunno if its helpful

[ojsl1]

I still occasionally use a super old Focusrite Saffire (2005) audio interface for connecting an XLR microphone to my PC, most of the times I end up cursing at the drivers because of the constant crashes, xruns etc and give up. The audio interface doesn't have it's own drivers and has to fallback to the cheaper versions Focusrite Saffire LE drivers that are in FFADO. Nowadays when I whip it out I just use the pipewire ffado-driver module, as described here to get the least amount of crashes. Would these updates decrease the amount of crashes, or even affect my setup because I use ffado?

[markd]

I have a four disk Icybox enclosure that supports FW800. I can fire up the old Macbook that has already someBuntu on it. I guess the guy will PM me in here about it as much as I check my PMs

[ATLief]

At my workplace we have ~20 FireWire to PCI and PCIe cards, and ~10 drives, enclosures, or other FireWire peripherals all just lying around. I don’t want to do any testing, but my manager might be willing to give some of them away for free.

If the maintainer (or anyone else, if the maintainer isn’t interested) is willing to pay for shipping from Toronto, I might be able to send them some FireWire cards and peripherals otherwise free of charge. I’m not going to ask my manager until such a person contacts me (so I can’t make any promises), but send me a PM if you might be interested.

[Pander]

I'm using an external sound card with FFADO to receive digital (SPDIF from a DJ mixer) and analog audio. Works very well.

[Eirikr1848]

All I have is an iSight camera… but worth testing I suppose.

[Eirikr1848]

I have a four disk Icybox enclosure that supports FW800. I can fire up the old Macbook that has already someBuntu on it. I guess the guy will PM me in here about it as much as I check my PMs

Why don’t you try ArchLinuxPOWER.org / ArchPOWER on there?

Then you are testing a distro with responsive developer(s) as well, and supporting someone who is passionate about the POWER/OpenPOWER ISA and platform.

https://github.com/kth5/archpower

[softsprocket]

I have an asmedia pcie card with via chipset in the machine I'm writing this on. Currently it is not being recognized as such by Linux. I was running Mint when I first noticed it had "disappeared" and of cource discovered that support for firewire had been removed from the kernel and then added back so I have switched to Fedora but the card is still not being seen as a firewire card.
$ uname -a
Linux fedora 6.12.4-200.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Dec 9 20:01:35 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have gone through a variety of steps to see if the card is seen and it does appear to be - I moved it from one mini pci slot to another and ran hw-probe and could see changing port information.
100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #3
Port#3 became #17 or something like that. The driver "pcieport" is detected.

In searching the net I found that someone else with a card using a Via chipset solved their problem by buying another card with a TI chipset.
I'm happy to test using my current card if that helps though, at some point, if I can't working I'll likely buy a card with a TI chipset .