From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/32] staging: brcm80211: new Kconfig item to enable IO reordering fix
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 06:23:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110514102315.GA6842@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305280792-9475-2-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com>
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:59:22AM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> From: Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
>
> bcm4716 (which includes 4717 & 4718), plus 4706 on PCIe can reorder
> transactions. As a fix, a read after write is performed on certain places
> in the code. Older chips and the newer 5357 family don't require this fix.
Is this issue specific to the wireless cores? It sounds like this is
a general issue with the PCI(e) support on these SOCs, and probably
should be worked around in the architecture specific PCI code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-14 10:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-13 9:59 [PATCH 01/32] staging: brcm80211: replaced IL_BIGENDIAN by __BIG_ENDIAN Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 02/32] staging: brcm80211: new Kconfig item to enable IO reordering fix Arend van Spriel
2011-05-14 10:23 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-05-14 15:46 ` Greg KH
2011-05-15 12:53 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-05-17 19:19 ` Greg KH
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 03/32] staging: brcm80211: replaced #ifdef __mips__ sections by W_REG_FLUSH Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 04/32] staging: brcm80211: got rid of #ifdef __mips__ sections in hnddma.c Arend van Spriel
2011-05-14 10:16 ` Jonas Gorski
2011-05-17 19:10 ` Greg KH
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 05/32] staging: brcm80211: got rid of #ifdef __mips__ by new dma_spin_for_len() Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 06/32] staging: brcm80211: remove unnecessary functions from wlc_main.c Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 07/32] staging: brcm80211: remove unused functions and prototypes Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 08/32] staging: brcm80211: make function definitions and prototype consistent Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 09/32] staging: brcm80211: cleanup functions in nvram.c Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 10/32] staging: brcm80211: fix makefiles for building drivers in kernel Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 11/32] staging: brcm80211: Kconfig fix for 'Broadcom I/O order fix' Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 12/32] staging: brcm80211: removed unused struct net_device_stats related code Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 13/32] staging: brcm80211: removed counter related macros that expanded to NOP Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 14/32] staging: brcm80211: removed stats WEXT support from fullmac Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 15/32] staging: brcm80211: removed support for proprietary ioctl WLC_GET_PKTCNTS Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 16/32] staging: brcm80211: removed counter related struct wl_cnt Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 17/32] staging: brcm80211: removed more unused counter related structures Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 18/32] staging: brcm80211: Fix for WPA GTK install issue in brcmfmac driver Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 15:22 ` Grant Grundler
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 19/32] staging: brcm80211: Fix for suspend " Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 15:30 ` Grant Grundler
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 20/32] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac driver's interface name changed to "wlan" Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 21/32] staging: brcm80211: Fixed wl_assoc_params structure miss match in brcmfmac driver Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 22/32] staging: brcm80211: Optimized wl_inform_single_bss function " Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 23/32] staging: brcm80211: Fixed bss (re)connect/disconnect issues " Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 24/32] staging: brcm80211: Fixed ibss join/leave functionality " Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 25/32] staging: brcm80211: Added support to change roaming parameters from " Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 26/32] staging: brcm80211: Added support to change scan times " Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 27/32] staging: brcm80211: Fixed scan notification functionality in " Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 28/32] staging: brcm80211: Removed unused variable from " Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 29/32] staging: brcm80211: cfg80211 up/down routines in brcmfmac driver are fixed Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 30/32] staging: brcm80211: Better debug support added to brcmfmac driver Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 31/32] staging: brcm80211: Corrected sdpcm_shared_t structure definition Arend van Spriel
2011-05-13 9:59 ` [PATCH 32/32] staging: brcm80211: fix checkpatch issue in wlc_channel.c Arend van Spriel
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