Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:00:30 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops |
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> Yes, it's now clear that all of this is so. Regrettably, it's used in > dozens of drivers, most having nothing to do with an ISA/LPC bus. > > If it really is specific to the ISA architecture, then it should only be > used in architecture specific code.
ISA/LPC is not architecture specific. In fact ISA/LPC bus components get everywhere because the PC market drives the cost per unit for those components down to nearly nothing.
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