Re: [PATCH 1/2] firewire: endianess fix

[Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:48:33AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:42 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >> On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:25:59 am Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>>> Under Mac OS X, system.log says "FireWire (OHCI) Apple ID 31 built-in now
> >>>> active". Could still be lucent though, judging by the subsys device ID of
> >>>> 5811, which matches up w/the Lucent/Agere FW323. But no, apparently I
> >>>> don't have the interesting one.
> >>> Well, it's interesting in the sense that it's a "normal" OHCI then on a
> >>> BE machine :-) My Pismo, which had the weirdo one, unfortunately died a
> >>> while ago. I'll see if I can find another machine with that one in.
> >> Ah, the pismo has it, eh? I think I may actually know of someone in the office 
> >> that still has one of those that I might be able to borrow and poke at...
> > 
> > I -think- it has it... Pismo definitely has one of the first variant of
> > UniNorth with "working" FW afaik.
> > 
> > The first UniNorth was used in the first "toilet-seat" ibook, but I
> > think this one didn't have firewire, or a non-working one... and in the
> > first Sawtooth G4 for which FW and Ethernet even were separate PCI chips
> > because the ones in UniNorth were too broken.
> > 
> > It's possible that early G4 titanium powerbooks or other model of FW
> > iBooks have that UniNorth FW variant too.
> 
> Still no luck finding one here. The person I was thinking of has a 
> Lombard, which has no firewire. I did get ahold of a 667MHz Titanium, 
> but its got an Agere FW323. Pretty sure my old man actually has a Pismo, 
> but its about a 3000 mile drive over to my folks house. The search 
> continues... I wonder how many people still actually 1) have a machine 
> with this controller, 2) are running Linux on it and 3) use firewire 
> devices with it. Both of you, please speak up, we're trying to help you! 
> (if only out of morbid curiosity to see this mythical goofy controller).

Definitely yes to 1) and 2), I have a Pismo which I use on a virtually
daily basis (and about to remove the last remnants of MacOS on it). 
However I have disabled Firewire because it would not sleep and wake 
up properly. 

I can test it on Wednesday with a 5GB fireflly disk from 2001.

Please tell me which configuration options I need to set for
Firewire (which stack, etc...).

	Regards,
	Gabriel