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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:06:02 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>
Subject:   Re: 8-CURRENT Firewire
Message-ID:  <20090701180602.GA36496@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907010947380.53988@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <1246316092.3981.11.camel@Lappy> <87hbxxp5ot.fsf@tabernacle.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907010947380.53988@fledge.watson.org>

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In the last episode (Jul 01), Robert Watson said:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> > I have an AMD 780G board with onboard Firewire controller. 8-CURRENT hangs 
> > at boot with:
> >
> > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config 
> > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config 
> > ...
> >
> > If I disable the Firewire controller in the BIOS it boots fine. What is a 
> > good way to debug this?
> 
> I've seen similar reports of this on 7.x; Richard Clayton has a box that
> has done this since at least 7.1, and it's one of the reasons I added the
> debugging output above :-).  Unfortunately, it's not in an easy position
> to debug on that box.

I have always seen this behaviour on bootup on 7.x, on a Dell Studio with an
onboard port, or varying other Dells with add-on PCI cards.  Loading the
module after bootup works fine, but then you don't get to boot off a FW
device :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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