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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:48:38 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8-CURRENT Firewire
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907010947380.53988@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <87hbxxp5ot.fsf@tabernacle.lan>
References:  <1246316092.3981.11.camel@Lappy> <87hbxxp5ot.fsf@tabernacle.lan>

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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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