Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear. I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a 'DV' port. I could plug that into an old Mac (like the dual G4 MDD above) with FireWire—or even a modern Mac running macOS < 26, with some dongles—and transfer digital video footage between the camera and an application like Final Cut Pro.

Jeff Geerling
I archived all my MiniDV tapes using a cheap firewire card and dvgrab on Linux, it can be set to automatically split noncontinous clips into different files for easy viewing. It's very straightforward to use and can be done unattended.
Firewire support was removed from the Linux kernel so I had to switch to Mint Linux to accomplish the same thing

> Firewire support was removed from the Linux kernel

This is very much incorrect. Maybe the subsystem wasn't built into a custom kernel you're using?

edit: google says improvements through 2026, support through 2029