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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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To: Stephen Comoletti <scomoletti@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: alpha/30905: reboot hang when using qlogic 1040/isp based driver
 on freebsd 4.0-4.4
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Oh- and to specifically answer you question- ispfw was split out of isp in
order to fit isp onto a boot floppy as well as be able to (eventually) unload
ispfw after boot has loaded the f/w that is needed.

-matt


On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> This is a very good question. The driver *should* function with the strange
> vendor specific f/w that Digital SRM loads- but clearly there was a problem
> here in this case. You wouldn't happen to have a SCSI analyzer to throw on
> this and tell me what the hell happened would you?
> 
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Stephen Comoletti wrote:
> 
> > Adding ispfw_load="YES" fixed the problem. Just out of curiosity, why has 
> > this behavior changed from 3x to 4x that now requires manual intervention 
> > after a new install to load the firmware?
> > 
> > Thanks for the help and the quick reply also.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > >From: <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>
> > >To: scomoletti@hotmail.com, mjacob@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, 
> > >mjacob@FreeBSD.org
> > >Subject: Re: alpha/30905: reboot hang when using qlogic 1040/isp based 
> > >driver on freebsd 4.0-4.4
> > >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:23:52 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > >Synopsis: reboot hang when using qlogic 1040/isp based driver on freebsd 
> > >4.0-4.4
> > >
> > >State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> > >State-Changed-By: mjacob
> > >State-Changed-When: Mon Oct 1 22:23:30 PDT 2001
> > >State-Changed-Why:
> > >Need feedback.
> > >
> > >
> > >Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->mjacob
> > >Responsible-Changed-By: mjacob
> > >Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Oct 1 22:23:30 PDT 2001
> > >Responsible-Changed-Why:
> > >My driver. This is the first I've heard of this kind of hang for a while.
> > >Can you retry and make sure that Qlogic firmware is being loaded
> > >by adding the line
> > >
> > >ispfw_load="YES"
> > >
> > >to /boot/loader.conf or manually stopping the boot and doing
> > >
> > >load ispfw
> > >
> > >at the 'ok' prompt? Please also do a
> > >
> > >verbose="YES"
> > >
> > >to get a verbose boot.
> > >
> > >http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=30905
> > 
> > 
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