On Gwe, 2003-07-11 at 22:04, xi wrote:
> And one interesting thing:
> in the AMD762 datasheet (24462.pdf) page 231 (Recommanded BIOS
> settings), I can see this: "Numerical Values shown with h or b are
> preferred settings." ; and AMD recommand this:
> -> set bits 2 and 1 of register 0x4C to "0b"
> -> set bits 23 and 3 respectively to "0b" and "1b"
>
> I can confirm that these settings works much more better, even if they
> don't exactly follow PCI specs. And I don't think this is specific to my
> cards since I have tested others.
> Furthermore, my AMD762 is revision B1 (just before the last one: C0),
> and my AMD768 revision is B2, the last one.
>
> Would you accept I make a patch which doesn't make any change in these
> registers at least up to AMD762 revision B1 (ie keeping recommanded
> values from AMD) ?
Lets try the AMD recommended settings. My old doc doesnt seem to have
those. I'll by happy to trial the patch in -ac and see if it plays up
the usual suspects for PCI spec violations (tg3 and i2o)
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