Adding Firewire Support To Kernel 5.4.53

[Fat Tony]

Hi all as you can see in my previous thread Syncing An Ipod In Gtkpod In fossapup64 9.5? I'm having trouble getting my iPod to sync as it's missing Firewire support. Is it at all doable to souce code and build an update to date kernel with FireWire support? If it is doable is there anyone here with the time and patience to walk a complete novice through how to build it?

Many thanks

[Clarity]

Yes, FIREWIRE has gotten little attention in PUP community at large. Its a great technology offering significant performance, but in most x86-64 PC of the past, it does not exist. Mind that this is NOT NEW technology.

Aftermarket PCIe cards and Apples have this built into their PC hardware. Now, recent Microsoft PCs come with Firewire to also take advantage of its performance advantage.

So, today's Microsoft OSes, Apple iOS, and ChromeOS provide OOTB support for this hardware, while many Linux kernels do not come with this. I believe there may be some firmware available for Linux OR some kernel elements that would address this in the Linux community, at large... and should be applicable to Puppy Linux community too.

Personally, I dont have anything with firewire...as of yet. But as the world moves to PCI v4.0 and now PCI v5, we may begin to see more PC units coming with Firewire v3/v4 as well as the latest in USB v4 PCs. And therefore leading to a rise in storage taking advantage of these technologies.

[ozsouth]

@Fat Tony - firewire support is in kernel 5.4.53. To incorporate other firewire drivers (if exist) involves a recompile.
This article: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8160 might be of interest.

[rcrsn51]

Read here for a solution to your gtkpod problem.

[rcrsn51]

No reply from Fat Tony.

[mikewalsh]

No reply from Fat Tony.

I think he's one of those who only gets on here once or maybe twice a week.....usually at the weekends.

Mike.

[Fat Tony]

@Fat Tony - firewire support is in kernel 5.4.53. To incorporate other firewire drivers (if exist) involves a recompile.
This article: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8160 might be of interest.

Thanks mate, I will give that a read and see if I can pin point anything that could help in getting the ipod to work in gtkpod

Read here for a solution to your gtkpod problem.

Thanks for the link, I've tried it and sadly it doesn't work in this case. I can access my ipod firewire ID, serial number and model type in ROX Filer in sys info in the firmware partition on the ipod. I'm guessing something rouge is happening during the handshake to throw up the error

No reply from Fat Tony.

I think he's one of those who only gets on here once or maybe twice a week.....usually at the weekends.

Mike.

Sorry guys I'm trying to get on here more but it's been another busy week at work. I work in the NHS so I spend all day looking and working on a computer so the last thing I want to do after a 12/14 hour shift is to stare at a monitor when I get home. So during busy weeks I've gotten into a no computer/smartphone routine when I get in otherwise I end up down the YouTube rabbit hole till silly o'clock, end up with eye strain and spend the next day looking like I've been up all night blazing it large with Snoop Dogg