On 11 January 2012 04:57, Daniel Smith <viscous.liq...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So how exactly did it interfere with it? >> >> >> Adrian > > IANAEE, but as I understand the explanation it was that a typically > Root Bridge reset is not supposed to occur until later in the > initialization. In this case, the version of AMI that was on this > board did a reset at power-on and then the required one later. This > first reset interferes with serial eeprom loader and causes it to stop > in the middle of initialization. So when the second reset comes along > the cards do not properly enumerate on the bus properly and you end up > with cards in the reported state. The fix the manufacturer did was to > remove the first Root Bridge reset from the BIOS code, after that our > cards would initialize and enumerate onto the bus properly.
Ok, cool. Let me see if there's a reliable way to "hard kick" the device so it sucks in the EEPROM settings again. There may be a work around we can do in the OS. Adrian _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
