Messages in this thread | | | Date | 28 Nov 2000 00:10:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: VGA PCI IO port reservations |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 18.11.00 in <E13xBNJ-0001r5-00@the-village.bc.nu>:
> > It is. There are plenty of devices for which an arbitrary IN is an > > irrecoverable state transition. > > The ne2000 clones being the most infamous of them. Blind ISA read probing is > not a safe business
Hell, I've had machines crashing in the BIOS pre-boot stuff because it was doing INs where a NE2000 sat.
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