On 2023-02-01 06:42, Torben G. wrote:
I can reliably bring OpenBSD 7.2 to a crawl (and eventually reboot)
when plugging a USB3 device into my Raspberry Pi 4B's second USB3
port.

I can confirm this happens on my rpi 4B 8gb rev1.5.
Tested both with the standard image firmware and pftf/rpi4 v1.34.

Here's what I've tested so far:
...
- Tested RPi's second USB3 port with Raspbian, works flawlessly.

Was that with the exact same hardware combination ?

Did you try booting with those two usb3 devices already plugged in ?
Here it seems only hot plugging triggers that issue and i can have both
my SSD and a keyboard plugged in the two usb3 ports as long as they're
both already plugged in when power is applied. Suggesting that it
may be more of a power issue in my specific case.

Unfortunately I don't have a second RPi to verify whether my board is
damaged, but things working fine on Raspbian seems to indicate that
the hardware itself is alright.

I don't think that's the issue.
You can find several mentions of the same problem on the raspberry pi
forums or on the raspberrypi/linux github issues.
Some suggest it's due to power issues, some say it depends on the
specific hardware. There does not seem to be a consensus.
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=275492
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=338883
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3485

My question at this point is: how do I proceed from here? How can I
further isolate the issue?

Not too sure. I believe that it's very much possible that some
combination of specific hub/usb to XXX/disk/power supply/rpi internal
circuits or revision triggers some interference somewhere.

Side note, on my setup the specific usb3 cable i use and it's position
impacts greatly the 2.4Ghz wifi performance, also a known rpi4 issue.

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