Hypertransport Speed

[Greg Lindahl]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:17:10AM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> 1) hypertransport clocking
> 
>    This patch allows to disable the speed cuts during hypertransport
>    setup using cmos variables "amdk8_1GHz" and "amd8131_800MHz". 
>    I've tried them on hardware which worked perfectly fine
>    with the higher speed links for both devices (K8 and 8131).
>    Since it is disabled per default and needs cmos and compile time 
>    activation, it will not break anything.

You mean you tested for a short time and didn't see the AMD 8131 bug,
and so you are going to run production at the higher speed?

This is not so smart. The bug in the 8131 HT core is rare, but big
clusters will see it fairly frequently.

-- greg