Re: 8-CURRENT Firewire

Robert Watson <rwatson_at_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

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