Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:55:43 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> To: Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de> Cc: freebsd-firewire <freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Have *you* disabled Firewire? Message-ID: <1250812543.2680.21.camel@Lappy> In-Reply-To: <87hbw2gnn3.fsf@tabernacle.localhost> References: <1250756114.23644.8.camel@Lappy> <87hbw2gnn3.fsf@tabernacle.localhost>
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[ removing -current ] On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:51 +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote: > Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net> writes: > > > I'm seeing evidence that the Firewire stack has been problematic for a > > small, but growing set of users out there. I see from a perusal of the > > mailing lists, that some users are disabling their Firewire stack after > > they cannot boot or install FreeBSD. This usually is due to a panic > > preceded by the message:" > > "run_interrupt_driven_hooks - waiting for xpt_config" > > Panic? Most people reported hangs, haven't they? > Hangs yes. If one waits long enough(2 minutes I think), it will panic. > > This log message was added in the past to provide a diagnostic > > indication of a failure. > > > > If you are one of these folks who have disabled their Firewire driver, > > please let me know. Also get me the following: > > Full boot dmesg output (bootverbose) > > Can you load "firewire"?(in kernel? after boot via module?) > > Can you load "sbp"?(in kernel? after boot via module?) > > *anything* else you might thing is relevant? > > I did provide this some months ago for my AMD 780G-based board. Was > there anything that looked suspicious? Is it worth retrying? > > Regards, I'm trying to gather information, thanks for the reminder about your specific hardware. (JMicron based) I've got the same failures reported with JMicron and NVidia based controllers. I will peruse the logs of all the failures and try to come up with something soon. :) Sean
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