From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 20 23:55:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF381106568B for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:55:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sean.bruno@dsl-only.net) Received: from iron2.pdx.net (iron2.pdx.net [69.64.224.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F1B8FC43 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22739 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2009 16:55:41 -0700 Received: from 069-064-235-060.pdx.net (HELO ?192.168.1.200?) (69.64.235.60) by iron2.pdx.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 20 Aug 2009 16:55:41 -0700 From: Sean Bruno To: Julian Stecklina In-Reply-To: <87hbw2gnn3.fsf@tabernacle.localhost> References: <1250756114.23644.8.camel@Lappy> <87hbw2gnn3.fsf@tabernacle.localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:55:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1250812543.2680.21.camel@Lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 (2.26.3-1.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-firewire Subject: Re: Have *you* disabled Firewire? X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:55:45 -0000 [ removing -current ] On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 23:51 +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote: > Sean Bruno 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