On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 14:26 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> AR9280 is Atheros' first dual stream PCI-Express single-chip
>> AR9220 is ATheros' first dual stream PCI single-chip
>>
>> They are essentially the same except for the bus interface.
>> Both of them are supported. If there are issues they are bugs.
>
Thanks for clearing that out: So I am, in fact, seeing a bug here.
Next step is to find out how to save something useful for the bug
report. I've no clue how to do that due to the nature of the crash.

> Thanks.  I see it now.  So we have a bug affecting AR9220, plain and
> simple.
>
> I can confirm that 0xdeadbeef comes from the chip, not from some random
> place in memory.  Even the supported Ubiquiti SR71-15 returns 0xdeadbeef
> when reading from the register 0x00ac (AR_IMR_S2).
>
> The fact that SR71-12 only works if installed in a slot below SR71-15 is
> very intriguing.  I checked the modules with nm for possible static
> variables, but I cannot spot anything wrong.  I'm going to try
> mmiotrace.
>
Pavel, this is way too technical for me to understand :)
Are you saying that you can confirm the issue I posted about? Does
this bug surface depending on which PCI-slot the card is inserted in?
How can I help out?

Regards,
Khashayar
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