[Bug 276463] Re: Enable new Firewire stack in default kernel config

[Stefan Richter]

Kernel 2.6.32 (2 December 2009) and libraw1394 v2.0.5 (26 December 2009)
contain the fixes that are required for FFADO.  Debugged and implemented
by Jay Fenlason.

I believe I had vanilla FFADO v2.0.0 running with these, but Debian's
FFADO maintainer packages FFADO trunk which contains a small fix that is
related to the new FireWire drivers.  I don't know how essential that
fix is.  I heard FFADO is going to do a v2.0.1 maintenance release
eventually; however, Debian's current FFADO package is closer t what
will become FFADO v2.1 --- also to be released "any day now" with much
extended hardware support (independent of whether old or new firewire
kernel drivers are used).

In short:  After storage, consumer video, industrial video, and IP
networking, FireWire audio as the last missing piece in the puzzle works
through the new kernel driver stack too since end of 12/2009.

Note that Ubuntu's current defaults (old stack, no user access to
raw1394) effectively prevents non-experts from using FireWire for
anything else than storage devices (and even those with less performance
and compatibility than the new drivers offer).

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Enable new Firewire stack in default kernel config
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