From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 18 22:54:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8042F37BC09; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA72058; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:55:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 01:55:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Colin Eric Johnson Cc: C J Michaels , Southwell , Mike Smith , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IEEE 1394 support In-Reply-To: <38FC8F7A.9DDE8F40@unm.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Colin Eric Johnson wrote: >I just did a little looking and there does seem to be a linux IEEE 1394 >project in the works. Take a look at: > >http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ (the newer site) >http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/ieee1394/ (the older site) > >They don't seem to have any mention of any patent problems. The fact that it's an IEEE standard indicates that there cannot be too terribly many patent problems with the technology itself. I would really like to see Apple kick some firewire code back into the BSD community since they are the ones pushing its industry acceptance. Has anyone checked to see if there is anything in Darwin with regards to IEEE 1394 yet? Brandon D. Valentine -- "...and as for hackers, we note that all of those known to The Register are so strapped financially that seizing their property would be tantamount to squeezing blood from a stone." -- The Register, 02/17/2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message