kern/126866: [isp] [panic] kernel panic on card initialization

[Alexander Sack]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Alexander Sack <pisymbol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Ross <westr at connection.ca> wrote:
>>
>> PAP>  I am having the same exact problem you were having using the same
>> PAP>  device.  I started receiving this error on FBSD7-RELEASE and thought it
>> PAP>  was specific to that version.  Naturally I upgraded to FBSD7-Stable as
>> PAP>  of today (9/25/2008), but still haven't been able to resolve this error,
>> PAP>  even with the patch presented here.  Like you had mentioned on
>> PAP>  freebsd-scsi, the machine panic's roughly 50% of the time during boot.
>>
>> Actually, going over the trap output, it looks different than the
>> output I had, so it might be a different issue in the end.
>>
>> Which kernel are you running?  (i386/amd64), and is it possible to get
>> the output of a dmesg, so we know what chipset the driver thinks it is?
>> (Are you running an HP Blade w QHM6432 like I am?)
>>
>> Also, if you can set 'hint.isp.[01].debug=0x11F' in your
>> /boot/device.hints file, it'll hopefully give some additional output
>> to help track the problem down.
>>
>> Obviously the best is to compile in the kernel debugger as that'll
>> give the exact place it crashes.
>
>
> Yea totally.  If you can get a stack trace that would be great (just
> compile in the debugger support, reboot, and when you hit the panic do
> a trace and just give us the function output (again exact addresses
> not so much)).

Paul do you have any update with this issue?  I have my patches ready
and I want to try to resolve yours if it indeed turns out to be a
similar bug.

Please let me know,

-aps