Re: amd64 boot crash for lack of being set up to use of rtw89; linuxkpi calls on the stack, 0xdeadc0dedeadc13e and such involved, devfs_ioctl with dsw=0xdeadc0dedeadc0de

On 7/25/26 13:46, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2026, Mark Millard wrote:
> 
>>>> There's D57430 and D57431 still open that no one has reviewed so far.
>>>> You could try to apply them.
>>>
>>> I expect I'll take a look at doing such later.
>>
>> D57431 did not apply cleanly to the source code that pkgbase supplied in
>> /usr/src/sys/ (started from not having the prior one line patch you had
>> me test):
>>
>> # git apply D57430.diff
>> # git apply D57431.diff
>> error: patch failed: sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_pci.c:342
>> error: sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_pci.c: patch does not apply
> 
> Maybe just start with D57430 for now.

Okay I'll do that.

> 
> I'll go and rebase D57431, which addresses yet another problem there.
> 
> 
> One other thing you could do for testing, which does not require
> recompiling anything is adding:
> 
> devmatch_blacklist="if_rtw89"
> 
> to rc.conf and see if things then at least boot.

I got the system to boot via using an older kernel for long enough to
install the pkg that fwget -n had listed. Rebooting with the upstream
pkgbase kernel that had previously failed then worked.

That may not be equivalent to your blacklist test but may be useful
information.

> 
> /bz
> 


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