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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:33 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org>
wrote:

> On 02/13/18 23:00, Lee Brown wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/13/18 19:52, Lee Brown wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 02/13/18 14:45, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 02/04/18 23:47, Lee Brown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Booting FreeBSD11.1-RELENG from a USB stick, loader works fine
>>>>>> keyboard
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> allows selection, kernel loads and starts OK, gets as far as
>>>>>>> detecting
>>>>>>> USB
>>>>>>> devices and stops there.  imgur <https://imgur.com/a/psn0H> for a
>>>>>>> screenshot.  Tried safe mode same occurrence.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CDROM is via a USB, so that's a no go and I've not had luck booting
>>>>>>> UEFI
>>>>>>> iSCSI nor PXE yet, so I'm stuck without a keyboard (no PS/2
>>>>>>> connectors)
>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> essentially any boot media.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For reference Xen 7.2 is running fine so at first blush it's not
>>>>>>> faulty
>>>>>>> hardware.
>>>>>>> USB3 mode on and off (ie force USB2) in the BIOS makes no difference.
>>>>>>> All Firmwares current.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any suggestions on how to move forward with this?  I tried turning on
>>>>>>> verbose mode, but I'm not sure how to capture that nor where to look.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> USB_ERR_TIMEOUT might be an indication of a PCI IRQ issue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Try to set:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> hw.usb.xhci.use_polling=1
>>>>>
>>>>> from the loader as a temporary quirk. Then try to dump information
>>>>> about
>>>>> IRQ's like "vmstat -i" "dmesg" and so on.
>>>>>
>>>>> --HPS
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Hans, but unfortunately that made no difference.  Here's my full
>>>>>
>>>>> loader.conf
>>>>
>>>> vfs.mountroot.timeout="10"
>>>> boot_multicons="YES"
>>>> boot_serial="YES"
>>>> comconsole_speed="115200"
>>>> console="comconsole,efi"
>>>> kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"
>>>> hw.usb.xhci.use_polling=1
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Did you enable USB 3.0 in the BIOS when trying this?
>>>
>>> --HPS
>>>
>>> It was configured with USB3.0 OFF
>>>
>> I just toggled it ON, same result.
>>
>> I verified the sysctl polling value from the loader before booting
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I suggest you bring this issue up with Dell customer support.
>
> Further, maybe Linux XHCI / EHCI has a quirk for Dell R630.
>
> Alternativly you can try to debug the XHCI/EHCI debug prints on your own.
> If you get a timeout it means something is not communicating like expected
> in the XHCI/EHCI DMA descriptors.
>
>
> As I only have the hardware replacement level of support and FreeBSD isn't
on their list of certified OS's, I'm probably best spending my time
debugging this issue.

I do find it curious that the loader is able to work the USB hardware but
not the kernel.

Once I figure out how to capture the kernel output, I'll crank up the
debugging and post back here.
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