Re: ASUS U5F hangs during pci bus probe

Yuriy Tsibizov wrote this message on Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:27 +0400:
> I'm trying to netboot FreeBSD on this notebook (it's Intel Core Solo +
> Intel 945GM chipset).
> Unfortunatly it does not have serial ports and I can't get full verbose
> dmesg.
> 
> Last lines are:
> pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0
> pcib1: secondary bus	1
> pcib1: subordinate bus	1
> pcib1: i/o decode	0xb000-0xbfff
> pcib1: memory decode	0xfa600000-0xfa6fffff
> pcib1:prefetched decode	0xfff00000-0xfffff (yes, threr is only 5 'f's)
> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
> pci1: physical bus=1
> 
> after that it hangs.
> 
> kernel is -CURRENT from yesterday morning.
> setting hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" does not help, and BIOS settings are
> very limited (it can only turn on/off onboard devices)

This is likely due to invalid VPD data on your system...  Add a:
	printf("reading vpd...\n");

to just before the comment:
	/* init vpd reader */

if this is the last thing you see printed then it is due to the new
VPD code...  I have identified on problem w/ the code, and have posted
the patch to cvs-all, if you are interested in testing it, I'll send
you a copy, though your problem could be different, and we need do some
debugging to find out what it is...

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