Subject: Re: 1.5R (20010206) bootup - weird cardbus messages
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/02/2001 08:08:07
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:59:21AM +1100, Darren Reed wrote:

 > Booting NetBSD-1.5R on a Dell Inspiron 8000, dmesg as follows from a
 > cardbus configured kernel.  Lines starting with "***" don't look right
 > to me ?  FWIW, I tried changing /dev/pci/esm.c to probe the Maestro 3
 > the same as the Maestro 2E (same driver is used on Windows ME/2K) but

The Maestro 2 and Maestro 3 are not compatible.  The 3 has a DSP core
with firmware that must be loaded, and the 2 has an ASIC that does all
the work.  The glue around the cores is the same, so some code might be
able to be shared between the 2 and 3 drivers... but a lot will be
different.

 > *** pchb0: random number generator enabled, -72727Kb/s

y'know, the "speed test" looks just terribly bogus -- and I don't
know what value it really has -- probably, it should just be nuked.


 > *** cbb0: bad Vcc request. sock_ctrl 0x30, sock_status 0x30000b20
 > *** cbb0: bad Vcc request. sock_ctrl 0x0, sock_status 0x30000b68
 > *** cbb0: bad Vcc request. sock_ctrl 0x30, sock_status 0x30000b20

I've heard other people mention these -- I'm not sure they're anything
to really worry about, but it would be nice if they didn't happen.
I suggest you file a PR about this one.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>