Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:49:08 +0100 |
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Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> writes: > > If there are no sensible fixes, an 0x80/0xed choice could I assume be > hung of DMI or something (if that _is_ parsed soon enough).
Another possibility would be to key this off DMI year (or existence of DMI year since old systems don't have it). I guess it would be reasonable to not do any delays on anything modern.
On x86-64 it could be presumably always disabled too, although I was always too chicken to do that.
-Andi
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