On Dec 11, 2007 7:29 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
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>
> Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:48:11PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> writes:
> >>
> >> Almost there.
> > cool! :)
> >
> > <snip>
> >>
> >> We should not need check_hypertransport_config as the generic loop
> >> now does the work for us.
> >> > +
> >> >  static void __init nvidia_bugs(void)
> >> >  {
> >> >  #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
> >> > @@ -83,15 +127,25 @@ static void __init ati_bugs(void)
> >> >  #endif
> >> >  }
> >> >
> >> > +static void __init amd_host_bugs(void)
> >> > +{
> >> > +  printk(KERN_CRIT "IN AMD_HOST_BUGS\n");
> >> > +  check_hypertransport_config();
> >> > +}
> >>
> >> Likewise this function is unneeded and the printk is likely confusing
> >> for users.
> >>
> > Copy that. Fixed
> >
> > <snip>
> >> >    {}
> >> So make that fix_hypertransport_config and we should be good.
> > Done
> >
> >>
> >> We don't need to shift device.  Although we can do:
> >> device_vendor = read_pci_config(num, slot, func, PCI_VENDOR_ID);
> >> device = device_vendor >> 16;
> >> vendor = device_vendor & 0xffff;
> >>
> > I'm not so sure about this.  In my testing, it was clear that I needed to do a
> > shift on device to make valid comparisons to the defined PCI_DEVICE_* macros.
> > The origional code had to do the same thing with the class field, which is
> > simmilarly positioned in the pci config space.
>
> Ok.  I just looked at read_pci_config.  It doesn't do the right thing for
> a non-aligned 32bit access.  (Not that I am convinced there is a right
> thing we can do).  Please make this read_pci_config_16 instead
> and you won't need the shift.
>
> Either that or as I earlier suggested just do a 32bit read from offset 0
> and use shifts and masks to get vendor and device fields.
>
> The current code doing a shift where none should be needed (because
> we ignore the two low order bits in our read) is totally weird
> when looking at it.
>
> > Other than that, new patch attached.  Enables the detection of AMD
> > hypertransport functions and checks for the proper quirk just as before, and
> > incoporates your comments above Eric, as well as yours Yinghai.
>
> You almost got YH's comment.  You need return 2 for the old functions
> so we don't try and apply a per chipset fixup for every device in
> the system.
>
> I'm actually inclined to remove the return magic and just do something
> like:
>         static fix_applied;
>         if (fix_applied++)
>                 return;
> In those functions that should be called only once.

it seems we need to have two tables. one for northbridge (sweep all
the NB_K8) and another for SB ( like Nvidia, ati..., one touch and
leave)

YH
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