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From: Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Contacts within AMD?  AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted due to
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > David Brownell recently added this check to the usb-ohci driver
> > since noone has gotten information from AMD for the workaround,
> > which is rumored to exist, for this bug.
> >
> > Do any of you have contacts within AMD who might be able to
> > get an explanation of the workaround to David Brownell?
> 
> We are working on that currently via the Red Hat contact.
> 
> > value given varies.  Rereading NDP seems to give a valid value.
> > I am not really clear why we don't simply read the value twice
> > whenever the host-controller is detected to be an AMD-756.
> 
> because we dont know the full scope of the problem yet.

Exactly how many bug reports has this caused?
What kind of problems?

I know I had trouble onece, but it was a CONFIG problem
with the 2.4.2ac series and the extra DEBUG options.

	-Thomas
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