From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 2 06:14:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA21291 for mobile-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 06:14:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (root@gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA21286 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 06:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.gvr.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) id PAA04580; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:14:31 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199711021414.PAA04580@gvr.gvr.org> Subject: Re: card removal problems In-Reply-To: From guido at "Nov 2, 97 12:48:59 pm" To: guido@gvr.gvr.org (guido) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:14:30 +0100 (MET) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk guido wrote: > Nate Williams wrote: > > > Just like with the PAO release I experience problems when removing a > > > card from a slot. Sometimes this results in a total lockup of the > > > system, while it keeps beeping. > > > > There is a race where it's possible that the driver in in use when you > > remove it that is un-avoidable. But, this seems to happen pretty > > rarely. > > Actually, it seems that it almost always locks up for me once a driver > has ben allocated. I inserted that modem card I was talking about > after applying my patch (so pcic would use not irq 3). It was not being > used but still the machine locked up. > I am now going to implement the power patches to see if that would > solve my problem. > An update: I tried to remove 2 modem cards for a couple of times. The Nokia one (irq3) did lock up my system each time (I tried 3 times). The other one (angia) went ok for 2 times. Note that in the lockup case, nothing is printed on the console. Perhaps it is card specific (?). -Guido