[SOLVED] Re: pq2_find_bridges hangs system

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 15 01:30:48 EST 2005


On Dec 14, 2005, at 8:14 AM, Vitaly Bordug wrote:

> Alex BASTOS wrote:
>> Vitaly,
>>> Maybe, but I guess more correct is to deal with USB->PCI  
>>> dependency..
>>> Is it really needed(I am not USB expert)?
>> Neither am I. I guess for this Host Controler it is not needed at
>> HW level, but I am not sure why it is still required by the SW.
>>>> 3) I have seen that from u-boot, a reset occurs when I read  
>>>> Internal
>>>> Memory at offset 0x10904 (PCI CFG_DATA). From BDI, when I do the  
>>>> same
>>>> all PCI section on IM becomes zero. Is this a known behaviour?  
>>>> May this
>>>> reflect a hardware problem?
>>>>
>>> Sounds weird
>> Here is the problem. The cause for this weird behaviour is that I
>> had PCI_ARBITER_EN_  disabled. So, a HW problem at the end.
>> I had disabled it trying to reduce power compsumption due to the PCI,
>> as I am not going to use it. It seems it is not possible that way.
>> Any idea how to get this done?

I'm guessing you dont have anything else doing arbitration on the bus.

- kumar




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