8-CURRENT Firewire

[Sean Bruno]

On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 04:04 +0200, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> 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,


Thanks.  Let me digest what is going on here and see if I can patch it
this weekend.

Sean