RE: Linux 2.6.14 ehci-hcd hangs machine

From: Aleksey Gorelov (Aleksey_Gorelov_at_Phoenix.com)
Date: 10/31/05

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    To: "Borislav Petkov" <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
    
    

    >-----Original Message-----
    >From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
    >[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of
    >Borislav Petkov
    >Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 12:36 AM
    >To: Linus Torvalds
    >Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List;
    >dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net; greg@kroah.com
    >Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.14 ehci-hcd hangs machine
    >
    >On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:28:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >>
    >> Ok, it's finally there.
    >... and it still won't boot on my machine. It hangs while initializing
    >the ehci usb host controller saying:
    >
    ><snip>
    >...
    >[4294691.834000] usb usb3: Product: UHCI Host Controller
    >[4294691.840000] usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.14 uhci_hcd
    >[4294691.847000] usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.2
    >[4294691.880000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
    >[4294691.885000] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
    >[4294694.855000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level,
    > low) -> IRQ 20
    >[4294694.864000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
    >[4294694.870000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
    ></snip>
    >
    >and dies. This bug is actually in there since 2.6.14-rc4 (see:
    >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5428) and David Brownell
    >supplied a patch which turned out to be useless eventually
    >since _rebooting_
    >the kernel with the 'usb-handoff' (and without the patch)
    >solved the problem.
    >As it turns out, it actually solves the problem only for the
    >reboot case.
    >My machine still hangs on an initial boot with and without
    >'usb-handoff'.
    >.config attached.

    Boris,

      While running with 'usb-handoff' turned on, do you see something like
    "EHCI early BIOS handoff failed" (in power on or reboot cases) ?

    Aleks.

    >
    >Regards,
    > Boris.
    >
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