Dear Kerry,

Am Mittwoch, den 14.09.2011, 10:11 +0800 schrieb She, Kerry:

> > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:25 PM

> > Am Dienstag, den 13.09.2011, 12:08 +0200 schrieb Kerry Sheh:
> > > Kerry Sheh ([email protected]) just uploaded a new patch set to
> > > gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/206
> > 
> > is there a typo in your Gerrit user information: »Sheh«?
> I have update the profile :)

I thought it is written without the h (She) as in your AMD address. It
looks like Gerrit now added an h to the end everywhere.

> > > -gerrit
> > >
> > > commit 7f2d27b0bddf97948fff2f81fab52633e0f77709
> > > Author: Kerry She <[email protected]>
> > > Date:   Tue Sep 13 18:29:27 2011 +0800
> > >
> > >     rs780: hide unused gpp ports
> > >
> > >     hide unused gpp ports, test on avalue/eax-785e
> > 
> > Copying the commit summary into the commit message body does not have any
> > benefits.
> > 
> > Could you update the commit message using `git commit --amend`?
> > 
> > 1. Why is hiding these ports needed? Did you get an error message?
> the information get by Lspci -vvv may not accurate if no device on the pcie 
> port, such as the link speed etc.

Thank you for the information and updating the commit message. To even
be more elaborate a diff of lspci output could also be added next time.

> > 2. Looking at the code, does this patch do more than is written in the
> > commit message? What does for example `AtiPcieCfg.PortDetect |= 1 << 2;
> > /* Port 2 */` do? Is that also hiding these ports? (I am sorry for this
> > noob question.) If this is doing something else please add that to the
> > commit message or even better split the commit up to make it even smaller.
> This because the pcie training code for gfx port 2 is hardcoded,
> If the training successful, we make a mark on the PortDect bitmap.
> I think we will improve the magic number later.

Thanks again. I do not know if a separate patch for this change would be
self-contained. At least it should have been mentioned in the commit
message. Mark Brown wrote a blog post about this.

> Thanks for your elaborative review.

Thank you for your answer and the patches!


Thanks,

Paul


[1] http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/2011/09/09/making-patches-easy-to-review/

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