/* Now enable LPS, which we need in order to start accessing
         * most of the registers.  In fact, on some cards (ALI M5251),
         * accessing registers in the SClk domain without LPS enabled
-        * will lock up the machine.  Wait 50msec to make sure we have
-        * full link enabled.  */
+        * will lock up the machine. */
        reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_HCControlSet, OHCI1394_HCControl_LPS);
 
        /* Disable and clear interrupts */
        reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_IntEventClear, 0xffffffff);
        reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_IntMaskClear, 0xffffffff);
 
-       mdelay(50);
+       /* Flush MMIO writes and wait to make sure we have full link enabled. */
+       reg_read(ohci, OHCI1394_Version);
+       msleep(50);
 
        /* Determine the number of available IR and IT contexts. */
        ohci->nb_iso_rcv_ctx =
        reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_HCControlSet, OHCI1394_HCControl_LPS);
        reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_IntEventClear, 0xffffffff);
        reg_write(ohci, OHCI1394_IntMaskClear, 0xffffffff);
-       mdelay(50);
+       reg_read(ohci, OHCI1394_Version);
+       msleep(50);
 
        err = request_irq(dev->irq, ohci_irq_handler, IRQF_SHARED,
                          OHCI1394_DRIVER_NAME, ohci);