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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:51:44 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Pascal Hofstee" <caelian@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Subject:   Re: No root filesystem
Message-ID:  <200808290951.44955.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <d8a0b7620808290036k508de5ddx579e9032b9f8bc84@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <g8nl1b$279$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> <200808231056.18305.jhb@freebsd.org> <d8a0b7620808290036k508de5ddx579e9032b9f8bc84@mail.gmail.com>

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On Friday 29 August 2008 03:36:46 am Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:56 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Does 'acpidump -t' show a MCFG table?  Also, can you get the output
> > of 'devinfo -r' (with working kernel).
> 
> Btw ... i posted a full verbose bootlog from the missing kernel in the
> other thread
> perhaps that might be useful in resolving this issue. See below:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-August/088099.html

So the reports I've seen of this all involve the Nvidia MCP55 ATA chipset, and 
only the ata controller loses its marbles (so to speak).  Christian ran a 
patch that tested each PCI config read and they always returned the same 
value from both methods.  I think that this may be a weird bug in the ata 
driver itself.  It might be helpful to add printfs to instrument the various 
nvidia-specific ATA routines in sys/dev/ata/ata_chipset.c to compare the old 
and new kernels.

-- 
John Baldwin



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