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Subject: Re: firewire debugging
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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> does anyone know if there is a limitation on firewire debugging on a mach=
ine
> with > 4GB or memory?

I've successfully used firewire dcons on amd64 with 8GB of RAM.

> I have 1394 {a,b} cards. =A0does it make a difference?

Shouldn't make a difference.

> also, the firewire card on one machine stops it from booting..
>
> is there a way to disable it during boot other than recompiling the kerne=
l
> without firewire?

Not sure, since I've never ran into this problem.

Hope this helps,

Chris Ruiz