Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:51:25 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Isolate PIC/PIT in/out calls |
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* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Rather than remove and/or mangle inb_p/outb_p we want to remove the > use of them from inappropriate places. For the PIC/PIT this may > eventually depend on 32/64bitism or similar so start by adding > inb/outb_pit and inb/outb_pic so that we can make them use any scheme > we settle on without disturbing the existing, correct (for ISA), port > 0x80 usage. (eg we can make inb_pit use udelay without messing up > inb_p). > > Floppy already does this for the fdc. That really only leaves the CMOS > as a core logic item to tackle, and bits of parallel port handling in > the chipset layers.
thanks, applied.
Ingo
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