Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:27:16 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Continuing saga: FreeBSD -CURRENT hangs with ATA code after April Message-ID: <1236029236.37252.113.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <49AC4DB3.9020007@FreeBSD.org> References: <gohee3$2lla$1@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> <49AC4DB3.9020007@FreeBSD.org>
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--=-31Vw3bJyAeV2RihzrYfW Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 23:20 +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > I started this thread on May 31 of last year: > >=20 > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-May/085923.html > >=20 > > The problem remains as of: > >=20 > > FreeBSD fugu.marcuscom.com 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #12: Sun Mar > > 1 16:10:52 EST 2009 > > gnome@fugu.marcuscom.com:/space/obj/usr/src/sys/FUGU i386 > >=20 > > The only way I can boot this system is to hack in the ATA code from > > April 9, 2008. I would love just to be able to boot this guy on a > > default -CURRENT. >=20 > 1) If I understand right, you had working system on April 9, 2008 and=20 > not working on May 31, 2008 and now. Have you tried to narrow down that=20 > interval between working and not working system to find exact point of=20 > breakage? I see no documented changes in Promise support there in CVS=20 > log, but for example, on Apr 10 2008 I see some related changes=20 > unmentioned in commit message. The April 9 date is the documented date of last working. It was the commit on April 10 13:05:05 that broken things: "Add experimental support for SATA Port Multipliers Support is working on the Silicon Image SiI3124/3132. Support is working on some AHCI chips but far from all. Remember this is WIP, so test reports and (constructive) suggestions are we= lcome!" >=20 > 2) To properly associate problem with present sources I would like to=20 > see full problem verbose messages for the current HEAD. Sure, I'll reboot in a bit. >=20 > 3) As my mom told me 15 years ago, if you don't understand what's going=20 > on, insert debugging printfs. If system hangs and we have no other=20 > sources of information, I would start from putting > printf("%s\n", __func__); > wherever it is possible to get readable path. I would start from every=20 > ata_promise_mio_* function beginning of HEAD code. Thanks! I was curious on a location. I'll update the thread with this info. Joe >=20 --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-31Vw3bJyAeV2RihzrYfW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmsTzMACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4dRcgCeNZ9o/jTVmy6eBCENMfaLiO6I vWgAn3cH4W6lxyJQDL3xirG/JtQ1X9Nd =jRD0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-31Vw3bJyAeV2RihzrYfW--
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