On Tuesday 03 October 2006 11:04 am, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, David Brownell wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > In principle it's possible to change ehci-hcd so that the SETUP
> > > transaction of a control transfer is sent in a different microframe from
> > > the following IN/OUT transactions.  In practice it might be a painfully
> > > difficult change to write.
> > 
> > Probably just mark only one TD active at a time, and have the qh
> > completion logic activate the others ... except that runs smack
> > into some silicon errata, some controllers don't handle inactive
> > TDs correctly.
> 
> If these controllers don't handle inactive TDs correctly, what do they do 
> when they reach the dummy TD at the end of a queue?

Misbehave:  it goes into the overlay.  There's code to explicitly
handle that class of silicon bug.  (Observed on EHCI 0.95 chips,
so one could charatibly blame it on "things" not being final.)

- Dave

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