NEC uPD72873

[Christian Laursen]

Christian Laursen <xi at borderworlds.dk> writes:

> It seems we managed to buy a presently unsupported firewire pci card.
> 
> I upgraded to the latest -CURRENT and hoped to be lucky, but it seems
> that it didn't have to be that easy. :)

Mostly by accident I happened to notice, that the card seemed to get probed
correctly when I booted a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE fixit cd. And indeed our
firewire device worked there.

What could cause this to stop working from 4.9 to -CURRENT?

Thanks in advance.

> This is the dmesg output of the card getting probed:
> 
> fwohci0: vendor=1033, dev=e7
> fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xe0800000-0xe0800fff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0
> fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
> fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 4.
> fwohci0: EUI64 00:00:4c:01:07:00:2a:01
> fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
> fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
> fwohci0: FireWire init failed with err=6
> device_probe_and_attach: fwohci0 attach returned 5
> 
> And this is the information from pciconf -lv:
> 
> none2 at pci0:11:0:        class=0x0c0010 card=0x00ce1033 chip=0x00e71033 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'NEC Electronics Hong Kong'
>     device   = 'uPD72873 IEEE1394 OHCI 1.1 2-port PHY-Link Ctrlr'
>     class    = serial bus
>     subclass = FireWire

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Best regards
    Christian Laursen