8-CURRENT Firewire

[Julian Stecklina]

Julian Stecklina <js at alien8.de> writes:

> Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 23:03 +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote:
>>> Julian Stecklina <js at alien8.de> writes:
>>> 
>>> >> 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
>>> 
>>> http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jsteckli/fbsd/sbp-after-boot.txt
>>> 
>>> In summary: No devices are discovered, even though I have a DVD and a
>>> disk attached to the bus.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>
>> Hrm ... I think that fwohci() or firewire() is getting stuck.
>>
>> Can you turn up debug and re-run your boot up sequence just like the
>> above dmesg?
>>
>> firewire_debug=3
>> sbp_debug=3
>
> I think I am too stupid to set these variables. I tried
> debug.firewire_debug=3 in loader.conf, but it doesn't work. After
> loading the modules they are always set to zero. Setting via sysctl
> doesn't work either, since they don't exist before loading
> firewire/sbp. So how do I set these?

Okay, I hardcoded them in the source... 

http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jsteckli/fbsd/fw-log.txt

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

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