Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:44:27 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Barry Bouwsma <freebsd-misuser@remove-NOSPAM-to-reply.NOSPAM.dyndns.dk> Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB OHCI problems... Message-ID: <41B0C21B.1000508@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200412021019.iB2AJxi19931@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> References: <200410201612.i9KGClg05229@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> <200411301310.iAUDAJl01186@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> <20041130181603.A1352@curly.tele2.no> <200412010727.iB17RCT07496@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK> <41AE5985.10401@elischer.org> <200412021019.iB2AJxi19931@Mail.NOSPAM.DynDNS.dK>
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Barry Bouwsma wrote: >Julian Elischer asked of me... > > > >>>my present 4.x USB stack comes from -current as it is. Many thanks! >>> >>> > > > >>I'm intrigued.. >> >> > >with good reason, i may add > > > >>why do you have a 4.x system with a 5.x USB stack? >> >> > >Hysterical raisins, mostly, if you ask me. > >Some many months back, Ian Dowse announced his P4 work as a patchset >to -current, which sounded like it addressed many of the USB problems >I had been experiencing. > >So, I took that and merged it as best I could with my system, borrowing >from -current when needed. > >Sometime around this time, you also did work to bring the 4.x USB >code more in line with current. > well, some of it.. > >Since your mega-merge, I've seen a few commits to -current USB while >4.x code has gone mostly untouched. As I discover more problems >(mostly OHCI-related), I figure the best thing is for me to try out >the latest code, as due to my mostly-offline status, I can only >make large incremental updates, that are not so easy to keep track >of -- then I can see if the problem is solved there. > I can only really concentrate on USB (and usb in 4.x) in short bursts as work allows. I'm currently on that again, looking for some bugs (in but -current and 4.x) > >Also, FWIW, it appears that my ehci.c that I compiled was taken >directly from NetBSD, as I had still experienced data-toggle >problems with all FBSD source of that time, while they were less >frequent (though occasionally present) with NetBSD. > at WHAT time? > >My last source update was made late October, before the latest >recent updates. At that time, I didn't notice any 4.x updates >of interest since May or so. I'm going to see if I can solve my >known USB/OHCI issues with the code I have, then if so, I'll set >this aside and try out clean 4.x source, in order to try and reduce >the differences between my source and that released, but without >having to suffer through bugs that may still affect me in original >4.x code. > Is there any possibility that instead of just doing 5.x stacks on 4.x I can convince you to try make that the defautl case (in other words help with MFC-ing current code back into 4.x?) :-) > >And in particular, the if_axe code I was trying to get working some >weeks/months ago was only present in -current, and part of what I >tried in order to avoid the panics I saw was to try and use as much >-current code as possible to minimize differences. > >Oh, and most importantly, because I don't have the foggiest idea >what I'm doing, so doing things all wrong is a good way to help me >learn. > > >next question? > >barry bouwsma >(sheesh, ask a quick question, get a novel in response) > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-usb@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-usb-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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