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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] IB/hfi1: Try slot reset before secondary bus reset
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 04:47:23PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> I *thought* the hardware was supposed to automatically negotiate to
> the highest rate supported by both sides without any help at all from
> software. But since several drivers have code to do it themselves, I
> wonder if I'm missing something, or maybe there's something the PCI
> core should be doing that it isn't, and the driver code is basically
> working around that PCI core deficiency.

The HW is supposed to do that, but Gen3 is electrically *hard*.

I'm not surprised that some HW has run into trouble where the driver
might have to be involved to tweak the SERDES.. eg there is now often
on-device software involved here and updating the SERDES 'firmware'
may be needed.

Jason

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