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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Work around 82571 completion timout on Pseries
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:04:56 -0400
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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Wen Xiong wrote:
> 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.


If it is not a PPC-specific issue, then we should not limit it to PPC.

	Jeff