On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 07:25:42AM +0530, Senthilkumar Balasubramanian wrote:
> 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
This should be read as "we have noticed this issue with ar9380/ar9382"
> also :-(. Please feel free to rephrase/rework on this patch if you think
> something is still lacking/missing...
> > 
> >  Luis

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