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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:09:01 +0100
From:      Little Bhudda <lbhudda@googlemail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mac Mini G4 1.5GHz Broadcomm bwi BCM4318 problems
Message-ID:  <49FAE178-E4A7-406C-A0A1-D64E5C8868E1@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200912221033.49245.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <644B6D20-37A0-49CB-8BE8-5E3E67C7C379@googlemail.com> <200912220805.59252.john@baldwin.cx> <24D4D117-6252-4AB6-9A0C-5F5F1B3BF3FB@googlemail.com> <200912221033.49245.jhb@freebsd.org>

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John,

I'm ok with messing with the sources, if you (and other people?) think  
that is worthwhile. I don't feel it's a good idea to do this without  
some support, however.

Are you ok giving me some hints on what variables to monitor, and  
where in the source code?

Thanks

Rob

> On Tuesday 22 December 2009 9:09:21 am Little Bhudda wrote:
>> Hello John,
>>
>> Thanks for replying. I'm wondering if this should go to the mailing
>> list as well?
>>
>> Just to make sure we've got everything clear:
>> 1. I boot with the bwi module available to the kernel
>> 2. The kernel recognises my BCM4318 device
>> 3. I login and attempt to use ifconfig (I did ifconfig bwi0 up scan
>> 4. The firmware kmod barfs with the error message I mentioned below.
>>
>> Now that we have that clear, the output of kgdb is attached here:
>
> It would probably be good to keep this on the list.  From your kgdb  
> output you
> have 16 free slots in your firmware table, so I'm not sure why it  
> isn't
> finding a free slot. :(  You could try adding some debugging printfs  
> to
> the lookup() routine in src/sys/kern/subr_firmware.c perhaps.
>
> -- 
> John Baldwin




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