On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Andrew Patterson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 23:23 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > > > The 33/66/100/133 values refer to the bus-clock speed at which the > > card is operating. As is seen here (although a bit truncated -- > > separate issue, I'll try to see if I can reproduce this on one of my > > HPQ rigs), the card is inserted into a PCI-X Mode-2 capable 133MHz > > (bus clock) slot. When operating under this mode, each data-phase > > between two devices is divided into 2 sub-phases, effectively doubling > > the transfer-data-rate to 266Mhz. > > I guess the proper terminology would be 266 MT/s (Mega > Transfers/second). Looking through the PSI_SIG PCI-X 2.0 marketing > blurbs, they use MHz a lot when referring to MT/S. So I would still > consider this to be a minor bug. The user wants to know the transfer > rate, not the actual frequency of the bus. Maybe just print out the > mode used instead, e.g., "PCI-X 266"?
That sounds reasonable. I'll spin some patches today after I verify all the bus-bits with the PUI group. Thanks, Andrew Vasquez - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
