8-CURRENT Firewire

[John-Mark Gurney]

Julian Stecklina wrote this message on Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:03 +0200:
> 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?

laoder.conf doesn't get reread after boot.  You can use kenv to set
these tunables, and then load the module...

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