From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 2 06:39:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2681065692 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:39:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509FB8FC29 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:39:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.topspin.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id IAA07647; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:39:36 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from localhost.topspin.kiev.ua ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.topspin.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1NcCQC-000KnE-CI; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:39:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4B67C8A6.5050102@icyb.net.ua> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:39:34 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091128) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy References: <20100201085131.GA34006@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4B66A0DD.2070109@icyb.net.ua> <20100202063635.GA64643@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20100202063635.GA64643@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-U Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel probe order issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:39:42 -0000 on 02/02/2010 08:36 Peter Jeremy said the following: > On 2010-Feb-01 11:37:33 +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>> This strikes me as undesirable. Is there some way to bump up the >>> probe/attach priority of console input devices to ensure that they >>> exist before the kernel tries to read input? >> It seems to be a problem with either your keyboard or your USB controller. >> USB keyboard can be discovered much earlier than mountroot if the hardware is >> ready. No magical software priority bump can help here. > > I've tried a couple of different USB ports (controllers) with no > change in behaviour. I'll try another keyboard if I can find one. It > _does_ work as expected on 7.x so this is a regression. Unfortunately you keep being low on hardware details. For me going from stable/7 to stable/8 resulted in an improvement of the opposite nature on two different systems: now my keyboard is detected before disks are detected, whereas previously it was detected some time later. -- Andriy Gapon