On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:22:06PM +0530, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Senthil Balasubramanian
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There are few places where we are checking for macversion and revsions
> > before RTC is powered ON. However we are reading the macversion and
> > revisions only after RTC is powered ON and so both macversion and
> > revisions are actully zero and this leads to incorrect srev checks
> >
> > Incorrect srev checks can cause registers to be configured wrongly and can
> > cause unexpected behavior. Fixing this seems to address the ASPM issue that
> > we have observed. The laptop becomes very slow and hangs mostly with ASPM L1
> > enabled without this fix.
> 
> On what chipset? Or did we see this on one chipset and suspect it can
> affect others?
We have noticed on Merlin and it is obviously incorrect for other chipsets
also :-(. Please feel free to rephrase/rework on this patch if you think
something is still lacking/missing...
> 
>  Luis

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