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Date:      Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:56:59 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_ep probe failures related to reading back settings 
Message-ID:  <199901032057.MAA07373@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Jan 1999 09:09:42 EST." <199901021409.JAA18234@hda.hda.com> 

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> I have trouble properly reading the settings back from a 3C509 on
> a 180MHz Cyrix MediaGX crash box.  The result is that it won't
> always probe in at boot.
> 
> I find that by increasing the DELAY by a factor of 10 and more
> importantly adding a delay before reading each serial bit of data
> (I assume we're reading back a serial EEPROM):
...
> Can someone check if we may be violating timings on reading that
> serial bus, or is it likely that this Cyrix has an inw that is too
> fast and I have to monkey with some BIOS settings?

If Bill Paul can't help you (I think he has the '509 documentation), 
then I would just bump the delays and be done with it.  I don't see 
reading it too slowly as being a problem, and erring on the side of 
caution is always desirable.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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