Rick_Thomas wrote: > However, that said, let me argue that it should not be needed: > > All NewWorld Macs have onboard FireWire, and so potentially need > ohci1394 and sbp2 to access external disks. Now, it's true that not all > NewWorld Macs will have actual firewire disks, and loading those modules > should probably be optional, not default. So... why not just always > make the ohci1394 and sbp2 modules available as an option in one of the > hardware discovery menus whenever we're installing on a NewWorld Mac? > > Or is there something about the hardware discovery process that I don't > know (very likely) that makes that difficult or unpalatable? Like, it's > totally driven by [the equivalent of] the output of lspci? Is there a > design/implementation document somewhere that describes this process? > I'd be interested in reading it, if it's available. Of course we could always load this module on newworld macs if we decided that was the best way. As I'm not a mac person, I really can't say. Personally, I perfer being cautious about loading hardware drivers unconditionally, since there are often edge cases where they hang a machine. And while perhaps all newworld macs have firewire today, it's hard to say if that will be the case tomorrow. The nice thing about the pci bus is it lets us eliminate the guesswork. Anyway, adding the pci id is the quickest fix at this point. -- see shy jo
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