Re: FreeBSD kernel doesn't boot on FUJITSU PRIMERGY RX200 S5 server

From: Alexander Sack <pisymbol_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:24:55 -0400
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> Alexander Sack wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:25 PM, John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 5:06:37 pm Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>>>
>>>> John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 4:26:09 pm Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hmm, I think you should definitely commit the atkbdc_isa.c change
>>>>>>> first of
>>>>>>> all.  I'm still thinking about the other change.  I wonder if we can
>>>>>>> figure
>>>>>>> out that a keyboard isn't present sooner somehow?  Do you know if the
>>>>>>> keyboard
>>>>>>> appears to be present but just slow vs if the keyboard is eventually
>>>>>>> found to
>>>>>>> not be present?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Our syscons does keyboard probing two times - once early during kernel
>>>>>> initialization before most of the subsystems have been initialized
>>>>>> yet,
>>>>>> and then "real" probing later in boot process. Interesting thing is
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> initially keyboard looks present. Reading status port in
>>>>>> atkbdc_configure() gives value other than 0xff, although reading is
>>>>>> thousand times slower than usually. This causes syscons try attaching
>>>>>> it. Even though reading status port works, apparently either emulation
>>>>>> is not complete or there is some other issue, so that it never
>>>>>> responds
>>>>>> to some commands. Slow access and lack of response results in
>>>>>> wait_for_data() function waiting several minutes instead of 200ms as
>>>>>> designed. This what causes that 6-10 minutes delay in boot process.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe the USB driver has disabled the keyboard emulation by the
>>>>> time the
>>>>> second probe happens in syscons.  Can you try disabling legacy USB
>>>>> support in
>>>>> the BIOS just to make sure that is what causes the delay?
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately it's not possible. Hosting provider doesn't allow me to
>>>> have access to BIOS settings.
>>
>> Stunt double:  I tried it and it has no effect.  The waits in atkdbd
>> kills it with or without USB legacy support on.  The wait on this
>> machine is about 1-2 minutes before boot.  Just another data point.
>
> Have you tried my patch? Does it help?

Maxim, yes I have.  Works much better.  Wait time is nominal.  I would
definitely document the time delay code as its non-intuitive looking
at it.

-aps
Received on Wed Apr 28 2010 - 15:25:05 UTC

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