8-CURRENT Firewire

[Julian Stecklina]

Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> writes:

>> I have an AMD 780G board with onboard Firewire controller. 8-CURRENT
>> hangs at boot with:
>> 
>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config
>> ...
>
> Two things:
>
> 1.  Full dmesg output from boot with the firewire enabled and disabled
> would be great.  Post it over on freebsd-firewire.

1.1 Hang
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jsteckli/fbsd/dmesg-fw-hang-busreset.txt

I got it entering multiuser by causing a bus reset, after the
"run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for
xpt_config".

1.2 Firewire disabled
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jsteckli/fbsd/dmesg-without-firewire.txt

> 2.  Can you boot with the firewire enabled in the BIOS and the following
> in loader.conf:
> 	firewire_load="NO"
> If you can boot this way, what happens when you:
> 	kldload sbp.ko

Boots fine, but kldload says "Error: File Exists". I'll try building a
kernel without sbp, if that helps.

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

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