From: "Eliezer Tamir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:20:01 +0200
> Almost all of the zero-filled tables will be removed. > The rest of the registers do need to be initialized. > > I agree that the number of registers that needs to be initialized is > huge, but that is caused by the way the hardware was designed. > > The values for the initialization come from several sources: > Some are derived from HW code (the XML files used to derive the verilog > code), > Others (along with much of the machine generated .h files) are generated > at microcode build time, adding a microcode routine will cause the init > values to change, using a new variable can cause an .h file to change. > In the last group which is very small, are registers that are controlled > by the driver. > > The values in this file really are machine generated, they really are > not meant to be modified directly by editing the file. > > The registers that are under the driver's control are in the main .c > and .h files. ... > The idle check code is not a manufacturing test, it is meant to help > debug the driver and microcode. > If the driver sends an invalid command to one of the CPUs which then > chokes on it, this will tell you which one of them died and the general > whereabouts of the problem. (ingress CPU X is stuck because output queue > Y is full) ... > ( Michael has showed me the trick of how to post with evolution, so I > hope that the mangled patch problem is behind us and I think that I can > now post everything without a problem, Hallelujah!) Thanks for the explanations, I look forward to your next submission. - 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
