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Commit 1eae4eb2 authored by Auke Kok's avatar Auke Kok Committed by David S. Miller
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e1000e: Disable L1 ASPM power savings for 82573 mobile variants


L1 ASPM link (pci-e link power savings) has significant benefits
(~1W savings when link is active) but unfortunately does not work
correctly on any of the chipsets that have 82573 on mobile platforms
which causes various nuisances:
 - eeprom reads return garbage information leading to bad eeprom
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 - long ping times (up to 2 seconds)
 - complete system hangs (freeze/lockup)

A lot of T60 owners have been plagued by this, but other mobile
solutions also suffer from these symptoms.

Disabling L1 ASPM before we activate the PCI-E link fixes all of
these issues at the cost of some power consumption.

Remove a workaround RDTR adjustment that is no longer needed with
this new one.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAuke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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