Re: [LinuxBIOS] Proposed change to amd/amdk8/incoherent_ht.c

[San Mehat]

fantastic ;)

On 10/26/05, Eric W. Biederman  wrote:
> San Mehat  writes:
> > While we're on the 'error handling' track, I also had an issue where
> > 'ht_optimize_link()' was continually indicating that a reset was
>
> required and
> > causing an endless reset loop. The culprit was the code which performs
>
> an 8 bit
> > read to get the *current* frequency of the link and doesn't mask off the
>
> error
> > bits next to the frequency bits (bits 0-4 are frequency, and bits 5-7
>
> are error
> > status).
> >
> > Once again, this was triggered by a transient error on the link (likely
>
> due to
> > link retraining).
>
> Thanks.  We just committed an equivalent version. :)
>
> Eric