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Firewire Updates For Scheduled FreeBSD 4.8 Release

Posted by timothy on from the making-movies-and-more dept.

Dan writes "Hidetoshi Shimokawa has added new functionality to Firewire scheduled for FreeBSD 4.8 release. New features include built-in DV support, improved recovery process & timeout stability and Write/ioctl support for /dev/fwmem0. He has not tested this on PAL and is looking for volunteers."

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  1. Re:4.8? by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wasn't 5.0 released about 3 weeks ago?

    1) 5.0 isn't considered a stable release yet. I think 5.1, maybe even 5.2 will be the first stable release on the 5.x series. It's considered a test release.

    2) Lots of people are just plain conservative. Some people still use the 3.x series because they see no need to upgrade. I'm sure some folks still use the 2.0.x series kernel, and look for updates.