Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757237AbXLUDlm (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:41:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753083AbXLUDle (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:41:34 -0500 Received: from mailbox2.myri.com ([64.172.73.26]:1781 "EHLO myri.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752968AbXLUDle (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:41:34 -0500 Message-ID: <476B35BC.8060204@myri.com> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:40:44 -0500 From: Loic Prylli User-Agent: Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock CC: tcamuso@redhat.com, Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, "Chumbalkar, Nagananda" , Prarit Bhargava , bnagendr@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [PATCH 0/5]PCI: x86 MMCONFIG] References: <476B0C58.4030703@shaw.ca> <476B185D.3000409@redhat.com> <476B21D8.2030602@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <476B21D8.2030602@shaw.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 33 On 12/20/2007 9:15 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: >> >> Suggested Workaround >> >> It is strongly recommended that system designers do not connect the >> AMD-8132 and devices that use extended >> configuration space MMIO BARs (ex: HyperTransport-to-PCI Express? >> bridges) to the same processor >> HyperTransport link. >> >> Fix Planned >> No > > That does sound fairly definitive. I have to wonder why certain system > designers then didn't follow their strong recommendation.. Just curious, do you know of any system where that recommendation was not followed? On all motherboards where I have seen a AMD-8131 or a AMD-8132, they were alone on their hypertransport link, and other "northbridges" (more precisely hypertransport to pci-express or pci-whatever, often nvidia) with a "MMCONFIG BAR" where on one of the other available hypertransport links in the system. Loic -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/