From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Work around 82571 completion timout on Pseries HW Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:20:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20070623082003.GA29471@infradead.org> References: <20070517090119.GA27145@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: wendyx@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Auke Kok , jeff@garzik.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Kumar Gala , Christoph Hellwig To: Wen Xiong Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: e1000-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: e1000-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:58:03AM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote: > >>It really shouldn't be there at all because something in either the > intel > >>or pseries hardware is totally buggy and we should disable features in > >>the buggy one completely. > > Hi, > > Here there are not hardware issue on both Intel or PPC. The patch is to > work around a loop hold on early version of PCI SGI spec. > The later PCI Sgi have spec have corrected it. We can just implement it > for PPC only. Other vendor may have the same issue. In this case we should add a blacklist for implementations of the old spec. There should be a way to find specific bridges in the OF firmware tree on powerpc and similar things on other platforms aswell. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/