FireWire

This article describes the setup of FireWire (IEEE 1394, i.Link) controllers.

Kernel
You need to activate the following kernel options:

Software
Portage knows the global USE flag ieee1394 for enabling support for FireWire in other packages. Enabling this USE flag will pull in automatically:

The USE flags of libraw1394 are:

After setting this you want to update your system so the changes take effect:

External resources

 * FireWire kernel wiki