public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aaronp@clustrix.com
Subject: Re: PCI-E Link training bug
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:52:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803085239.6766fb0e@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60320.1280838641@localhost>

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:30:41 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:36:35 -1000, Jeff Roberson said:
> 
> > At least one intel chipset will occasionally negotiate a 4x link for an 8x 
> > device in an 8x port.  It is a known errata in the 5400 mch.  
> 
> Can this get wrapped in some sort of 'if (chipset == MCH5400)'?  There's no
> sense in adding an entire second of delay going around this loop 4 times when
> it's a valid config on a non-5400 chipset.

Yeah, it would be good to limit it to affected chipsets.  Also, please
post it to linux-pci@vger.kernel.org as well, and cc me, and we'll get
the fix in quickly.

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-03 10:36 PCI-E Link training bug Jeff Roberson
2010-08-03 12:30 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-08-03 15:52   ` Jesse Barnes [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100803085239.6766fb0e@virtuousgeek.org \
    --to=jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org \
    --cc=Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu \
    --cc=aaronp@clustrix.com \
    --cc=jroberson@jroberson.net \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox