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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
