Re: firewire debugging

2011-05-09 Thread Peter Grehan
Hi Julian, does anyone know if there is a limitation on firewire debugging on a machine with > 4GB or memory? I don't know of any Firewire cards that support physical access *above* 4GB. They may exist. For instance, the (last?) Texas Instruments PCIe 1394a/b chip, the XIO2213B,

Re: firewire debugging

2011-05-09 Thread Julian Elischer
On 5/9/11 12:48 PM, Sean Bruno wrote: On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 14:35 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: does anyone know if there is a limitation on firewire debugging on a machine with> 4GB or memory? I have 1394 {a,b} cards. does it make a difference? also, the firewire card on one machine st

Re: firewire debugging

2011-05-09 Thread Sean Bruno
On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 14:35 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > does anyone know if there is a limitation on firewire debugging on a > machine with > 4GB or memory? > > I have 1394 {a,b} cards. does it make a difference? > > also, the firewire card on one machine stops it f

Re: firewire debugging

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Ruiz
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > does anyone know if there is a limitation on firewire debugging on a machine > with > 4GB or memory? I've successfully used firewire dcons on amd64 with 8GB of RAM. > I have 1394 {a,b} cards.  does it make a difference?

firewire debugging

2011-05-03 Thread Julian Elischer
does anyone know if there is a limitation on firewire debugging on a machine with > 4GB or memory? I have 1394 {a,b} cards. does it make a difference? also, the firewire card on one machine stops it from booting.. is there a way to disable it during boot other than recompiling the ker