Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
>
>> I'm trying not to be biased here, but I think raw1394 exposes too much
>> hardware
>
> Right, a similar approach to sgen/uscsi and ugen/libusb. Internally we
> have the dbg1394 driver used by the automated test suite, which is
> closer to raw1394 than av1394. At this point, though, I won't be too
> concerned about clean design - FireWire will be dead in a few years.
>
> -Artem
I do not think that David is biased as raw1394 does have some
exposure/security questions to answer. Unfortunately it is the missing
link left to get apps linke Kino working (I will try the Solaris patches
for av1394/libraw1394 before diving into a raw1394 port). I read there
is a new Linux firewire stack that does not require raw1394, but
libraw1394 is not yet fully converted....
Re Artem: FireWire will be dead in a few years
Hmmm, maybe I brought my camera too early :(
Doug
