Firewire Removed from 9.2

[aorchid]

Hello,

I see that firewire(4) has been removed from 9.2 RELEASE. If I install 9.2 RELEASE, will I still be able to kldload sbp to get my firewire drive working?

Thanks, Aric

 

[kpa]

It's only removed from the GENERIC configuration file as far as I can see. All the drivers are still built as modules during the kernel build so the firewire(4) drivers should be kldload(8)able on 9.2.

 

[SirDice]

If you want it loaded everytime the system boots just add it to /boot/loader.conf. As @kpa said, it's only been removed from the GENERIC kernel and you should be able to load it.

sbp_load="YES"

 

[tyson]

Or if you don't need it at boot, but still wana want to get it autoloaded on system boot, place this in your rc.conf:

kld_list="sbp xyz ..."

You can load as many modules as you want, and it speeds up my boot process a little (bootloader is just slow at loading modules here, even if it loads from SSD).

 

[aorchid]

Thanks very much for all your input. Appreciate it.