ASUS U5F hangs during pci bus probe

[Yuriy Tsibizov]

> > > I'm trying to netboot FreeBSD on this notebook (it's Intel 
> > Core Solo +
> > > Intel 945GM chipset).
> > > Unfortunatly it does not have serial ports and I can't get 
> > full verbose
> > > dmesg.
> > > 
> > > Last lines are:
> > > pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0
> > > pcib1: secondary bus	1
> > > pcib1: subordinate bus	1
> > > pcib1: i/o decode	0xb000-0xbfff
> > > pcib1: memory decode	0xfa600000-0xfa6fffff
> > > pcib1:prefetched decode	0xfff00000-0xfffff (yes, threr 
> > is only 5 'f's)
> > > pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
> > > pci1: physical bus=1
> > > 
> > > after that it hangs.
> > > 
> > > kernel is -CURRENT from yesterday morning.
> > > setting hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" does not help, and BIOS 
> > settings are
> > > very limited (it can only turn on/off onboard devices)
> > 
> > This is likely due to invalid VPD data on your system...  Add a:
> > 	printf("reading vpd...\n");
> > 
> > to just before the comment:
> > 	/* init vpd reader */
> > 
> > if this is the last thing you see printed then it is due to the new
> > VPD code...  I have identified on problem w/ the code, and 
> have posted
> > the patch to cvs-all, if you are interested in testing it, I'll send
> > you a copy, though your problem could be different, and we 
> > need do some
> > debugging to find out what it is...

Yes, it keeps running in "for (; !end;)" loop forever. I'll have access
to this notebook till friday evening.


Yuriy.