The point I think Bob was making is that FireWire is an Apple technology, so
they have a vested interest in making sure it works well on their systems and with their OS. They could even have a specific chipset that they exclusively use in their systems, although I don't see why others couldn't source it (with the exception that others may be too cheap to do so). Given these factors, it makes sense that FireWire performs brilliantly on Apple hardware/software, while everyone else makes the bare minimum (or less) investment in it, if that much. So those open drivers, while they could be useful for learning or other purposes, may not be directly usable for the systems people are running with OpenSolaris. At least, that's what I think Bob meant. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 17:08, Alex Blewitt <alex.blew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 Mar 2010, at 15:30, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Khyron wrote: > >> Getting better FireWire performance on OpenSolaris would be nice though. > >> Darwin drivers are open...hmmm. > > > > OS-X is only (legally) used on Apple hardware. Has anyone considered > that since Firewire is important to Apple, they may have selected a > particular Firewire chip which performs particularly well? > > Darwin is open-source. > > http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1486.2.11/ > > http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/IOFireWireFamily/IOFireWireFamily-417.4.0/ > > Alex -- "You can choose your friends, you can choose the deals." - Equity Private "If Linux is faster, it's a Solaris bug." - Phil Harman Blog - http://whatderass.blogspot.com/ Twitter - @khyron4eva
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