I have PCI Firewire cards in all my DEC Alpha systems, and they work perfectly. firewire_core and firewire_ohci and firewire_sbp2 are the three kernel modules. These kernel modules are missing from the install and live CD's for the Alpha processor discs. The ability to install Gentoo to an external Firewire disk is greatly desired for testing purposes. Testing out experimental gcc toolchain components is not something I'm willing to do on my main Gentoo installation, but if I could test against a "throw away" installation on a Firewire disk, it would help immensely. This bug report constitues my request to add the firewire kernel modules to the installation CD for Alpha processor systems. Thank you
(In reply to george164 from comment #0) > The ability to install Gentoo to an external Firewire disk is greatly > desired for testing purposes. Testing out experimental gcc toolchain > components is not something I'm willing to do on my main Gentoo > installation, but if I could test against a "throw away" installation on a > Firewire disk, it would help immensely. Most people just use a chroot, rather than a separate physical disk.
I must be the only one using Gentoo on an Alpha with firewire hard drives. Ha, such is life.
I expect so. I think your request was to enable firewire support in the kernels used for the minimal CD images, and that you use firewire disks for testing. It's not clear to me why you want to use the minimal CD for that. It seems like a chroot (on whatever disk you wish) satisfies your purpose -- it's what everyone else uses and presumably you would be chrooting into an install on an external disk anyway.
