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Date:      Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:45:36 +0200
From:      Julian Stecklina <js@alien8.de>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8-CURRENT Firewire
Message-ID:  <87d48k1va7.fsf@tabernacle.lan>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907010947380.53988@fledge.watson.org> (Robert Watson's message of "Wed\, 1 Jul 2009 09\:48\:38 %2B0100 \(BST\)")
References:  <1246316092.3981.11.camel@Lappy> <87hbxxp5ot.fsf@tabernacle.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907010947380.53988@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> 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.

Is there any other way I can help to resolve this?

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
they start making vacuum cleaners - Ernst Jan Plugge



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