[elrepo] ieee1394 status

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 08/02/2014 01:37 AM, Leon Fauster wrote:
> Am 02.08.2014 um 00:12 schrieb Akemi Yagi <toracat at elrepo.org>:
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I started to dive into a firewire camera support here.
>>> I am wondering about the missing ieee1394 module in the
>>> EL6 repository. Is it obsolete now?
>
> Thank you for the fast response.
>
>
>> I don't think we ever provided kmod-ieee1394 for el6.
> sure, its only in the el5 repo.
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>
>> Do you really need it? Is the current firewire driver in el6 not working?
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> I don't see any driver in the main distro package.
>
> $ rpm -qpl http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-2.6.32-431.23.3.el6.x86_64.rpm 2>/dev/null | grep 1394
> $ (empty)
>
> the centos.plus kernel don't have it too.
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>
>
> they are in elrepo's kmod package for el5 only
>
> $ rpm -qpl http://elrepo.reloumirrors.net/elrepo/el5/x86_64/RPMS/kmod-ieee1394-0.0-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm 2>/dev/null | grep 1394
> /etc/depmod.d/ieee1394.conf
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394/dv1394.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394/eth1394.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394/ieee1394.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394/ohci1394.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394/pcilynx.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394/raw1394.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394/sbp2.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/extra/ieee1394/video1394.ko
> ...
>
>
> it would be great to see this module(s) in the recent release lines.
Try installing libraw1394
Name        : libraw1394
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.0.4
Release     : 1.el6
Size        : 120 k
Repo        : installed
 From repo   : base
Summary     : Library providing low-level IEEE-1394 access
URL         : http://www.dennedy.org/libraw1394/
License     : LGPLv2+
Description : The libraw1394 library provides direct access to the 
IEEE-1394 bus through
             : the Linux 1394 subsystem's raw1394 user space interface. 
Support for both
             : the classic ieee1394 and new firewire linux driver stacks 
is included, with
             : run-time detection of the active stack. Fedora comes with 
the firewire stack
             : by default.