[laptop-discuss] Re: solaris with ral driver panic at boot time

[Quaker Fang]

Hi Casper,

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:

>>BTW, I found another problem that the system hangs right after SunOS
>>copyright message when I rebooted the system without power cycle.
>>I tried to narrow the root-cause by modifying the ral source code,
>>but no luck. It may be a cardbus issue, not ral.
>>    
>>
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>Have you tried creating a reset entry point which disables the driver's
>interrupt?  (as in iprbreset()).
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There is a gld_reset entry point in the driver, which will initialize the
hardware and enable the interrupt.

Do you mean I should disable the interrupt in the gld_reset() and enable
it in the gld_start()?
If yes, Murayama, could you please try on your machine, and see result?

Thanks!

--
Quaker

>In some cases, a warm reboot does not reset all hardware and that may
>cause a stuck interrupt.
>
>Casper
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