Re: Kernel Panic on boot

["Eric J. Christeson" <ejc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 07:20, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:19:15PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > :There are three different "solutions" in order of increasing complexity:
> > :- add a local hack wire the interrupt link for cardbus and add the necessary
> > :  chipset specific part for activation. I'm doing this right now.
> > :- include the hooks for ACPI interrupt routing. This depends on a working
> > :  ACPI implementation instead and should work if you have to use ACPI on
> > :  FreeBSD 5 too.
> > :- port the pcib interrupt code from NetBSD/OpenBSD which allows the kernel
> > :  to handle it w/ PCI BIOS at all.
> > :
> > :The first point is some kind of scaled down version of the last point :)
> > :
> > :Joerg
> > 
> >     #3 sounds like it would be the most maintainable.  I don't think we want
> >     to create a case where we have to completely depend on ACPI, if possible,
> >     and I would really love to be able to scrap PCI-BIOS.
> 
> I completely agree on this, esp. since the framework would be identical on
> all PCI architectures, not only IA32. There are still some dependencies on
> the PCI BIOS, since we need to get the PCIR table somewhere, that's the
> mapping of interrupt pins to slots/devices.
> 
> >     Could you point me at the NetBSD/OpenBSD sources involved?  I can take a
> >     quick look and estimate the effort required.
> 
> It's in arch/i386/pci, pci_intr_fixup.c and chipset specific parts in the
> same directory. I need to give the handling of PCI bridges some thinking
> and start integrating that code and the IO code into our PCI tree as optional
> component. But it has to wait a bit for my exams :)

If you have any patches you want me to try or debugging, just let me
know.  I've got another machine that I can probably make a bootable CD
on.  It's got the hardware, I just haven't tried make release yet.

Eric

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Eric J. Christeson <ejc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>