Re: Have *you* disabled Firewire?

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:15:14AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:

> I'm seeing evidence that the Firewire stack has been problematic for a
> small, but growing set of users out there.  I see from a perusal of the

Yes, I had to disable firewire on an AMD785/Phenom board to be able to
boot 8.0b2/amd64 or 7.2/amd64.

On another machine, an older Thinkpad R51 which also comes with a
firewire port, I installed 8.0b2/i386 without a problem:

from R51's dmesg:

fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xc0224000-0xc02247ff,0xc0220000-0xc0223fff irq 11 at device 0.2 on pci2
fwohci0: [ITHREAD]
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:06:1b:03:22:01:cc:2b
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
dcons_crom0: <dcons configuration ROM> on firewire0
dcons_crom0: bus_addr 0x10b4000
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:06:1b:01:cc:2b
fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:06:1b:01:cc:2b
fwip0: <IP over FireWire> on firewire0
fwip0: Firewire address: 00:06:1b:03:22:01:cc:2b _at_ 0xfffe00000000, S400, maxrec 2048
sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: BUS reset
fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: node_id=0x00000000, SelfID Count=1, CYCLEMASTER mode

> mailing lists, that some users are disabling their Firewire stack after
> they cannot boot or install FreeBSD.  This usually is due to a panic
> preceded by the message:"
> 	"run_interrupt_driven_hooks - waiting for xpt_config"

It does not panic, it just keeps showing this message every 60 seconds.

> If you are one of these folks who have disabled their Firewire driver,
> please let me know.  Also get me the following:
> 	Full boot dmesg output (bootverbose)
> 	Can you load "firewire"?(in kernel? after boot via module?)
> 	Can you load "sbp"?(in kernel? after boot via module?)

I built a kernel without firewire, reenabled firewire in the BIOS and
tested:

# kldload firewire
...
# kldload sbp
...

I'll attach the dmesg.

bye,
Uwe