Re: Recent i386-GENERIC panic

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, John D. Baker wrote:

> Since I see this patch has been rolled into the latest HEAD, I've
> updated again and will try a freshly-built kernel.

Still no joy with the above strategy.

I reverted sources to 201108291448Z and then reverted only
"sys/dev/pci/pci.c" to r1.141 (the revision prior to the date/time
shown above).

A GENERIC kernel built from this source combination boots without
panicking.  Naturally, the other related modularizations done at
the same time cause complaints:

[...]
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `pci'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `pci'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `pci'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `pci'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `pci'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `pci'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
WARNING: module error: can't find builtin dependency `drm'
[...]

The changes from r1.141 to r1.142 of "sys/dev/pci/pci.c" look
innocuous, but for some reason they tickle some peculiarity
of this machine that prompts a panic.

Now that it appears to be located, how to further identify and
then fix or at least work around it...

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