8-CURRENT Firewire

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 01), Robert Watson said:
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> > 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.

I have always seen this behaviour on bootup on 7.x, on a Dell Studio with an
onboard port, or varying other Dells with add-on PCI cards.  Loading the
module after bootup works fine, but then you don't get to boot off a FW
device :)

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	Dan Nelson
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