From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Derrik Pates , Stefan Piger Cc: Subject: Re: Again with the firewire Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:21:11 +0100 Message-Id: <20011122182111.9961@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > >I actually just had the same thing happen, only the entire console froze, >X and all. I don't know if the kernel was still working or not, I didn't >have another machine connected at the time. However, this is actually an >improvement for me - the ohci1394 module doesn't lock the PMU up and cause >the system to suddenly shutdown (this is a FireWire iBook). If I boot the >system with the FireWire device - a QPS CD-RW drive - plugged in, all is >fine. In Stefan's case, it appears to be the transmit DMA of the chip stalling for some unknown reason. I suggest moving that discussion to the linux1394-devel list as I really don't know what may be going on. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/