8-CURRENT Firewire
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 1 08:48:42 UTC 2009
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Julian Stecklina wrote:
>> -CURRENT has some slightly different Firewire code in it than 6/7. If you
>> have an opportunity to test it with your Firewire hard drives and cameras
>> I'd really appreciate it.
>>
>> Stuff that's changed:
>> multi-speed compatible devices will acutally work.
>> a 400/800 device is connected to a 400/800 compatible
>> firewire card via a 400 connection will work at 400
>> fwcontrol understands multiple firewire cards as multiple
>> buses now. most commands now take a -u argument to
>> indicate the bus.
>>
>> Please report to the -firewire if you get a chance to test. It would be
>> great to get positive as well as negative results.
>
> I have an AMD 780G board with onboard Firewire controller. 8-CURRENT hangs
> at boot with:
>
> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config
> ...
>
> If I disable the Firewire controller in the BIOS it boots fine. What is a
> good way to debug this?
I've seen similar reports of this on 7.x; Richard Clayton has a box that has
done this since at least 7.1, and it's one of the reasons I added the
debugging output above :-). Unfortunately, it's not in an easy position to
debug on that box.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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