Boot from Firewire (VIA Fire II)

[Dieter]

In message <9755046264163886827980728780868960484-Webmail at me.com>, Kevin Roettger writes:

>> On an unrelated note, are you able to get your
>> VT6306 into "non-CYCLEMASTER mode"?

> Being not familiar with the CYCLEMASTER mode, I googled around and just tried this:
> 
> saloon# fwcontrol -u 0 -f 0
> send phy_config root_node=0 gap_count=-1
> saloon# fwcontrol -u 0 -r
> After those commands, end of dmesg gives me this:
> 
> fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
> fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: BUS reset
> fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: node_id=0x00000000, SelfID Count=2, CYCLEMASTER mode
> firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0 cable IRM irm(0)  (me)
> firewire0: bus manager 0

So it isn't just me.  Thanks.