Re: Dropping firewire support from boot loader

Hi,

Well, the kernel support ‘just works’ so installing on to a firewire disk is straightforward; just load up firewire.ko and sbp.ko, and the disk comes up through CAM.

However, I couldn’t get the loader to see the disk; I don’t think this build of the loader includes the firewire bits. Not helped on my hardware because the BIOS doesn’t have firewire disk boot support.

> On 10 Nov 2022, at 21:53, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> I've created a diff: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37334
> 
> Warner
> 
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 3:07 AM Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On 9 Nov 2022, at 23:55, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 3:42 PM Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote on
> > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:01:41 UTC :
> > 
> > > I'd like to drop firewire support from the boot loader. It's not been used
> > > in quite some time, as far as I can tell. Nor have I (or anybody else)
> > > tested it in forever.
> > > 
> > > Is anybody still using it? Does anybody know if it works? Any objections to
> > > removing it from FreeBSD 14?
> 
> I think I still have hardware that will do this. I can check it out if anyone cares... 
> 
> > I would suggest that old PowerMac's might be the most
> > likely usage context.
> > 
> > Right now, though, this is an i386 only feature...
> > 
> > Warner
> 
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> Bob Bishop
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