Disposition of short or long SSP frames in SAS

Stephen FINCH steve.finch at st.com
Thu Apr 10 07:40:59 PDT 2008


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Ah, but the standard is clear!	In section:
"7.16.8.7 SSP_RF (receive frame control) state machine"
it states 
"This state shall discard the frame if:
a) this state receives more than 263 Data Dword Received messages after an
SOF Received message and before an EOF Received message;
b) this state receives fewer than 7 Data Dword Received messages after an
SOF Received message and before an EOF Received message,
c) this state receives an Rx Credit Status (Credit Exhausted) message; or
d) this state receives a DONE Received message."
And later it states that an ACK or NAK is sent only if the frame is not
discarded.  
Therefore, an ACK or NAK is not sent for a frame of invalid size.
Steve Finch
STMicroelectronics
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Subject: Disposition of short or long SSP frames in SAS
All,
During SSP frame reception if the frame was either too short (less than 6
DWORDS) too long (greater than 262 DWORDS) and the CRC was good, should a
NAK be generated for the frame?
I cannot find anything about this in the SAS 2.0 Rev 14 spec
Thanks
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