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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
On 07-01-08 23:27, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

>> There might have been a few 386/20's clocking the ISA bus at ­­÷3 (6.67
>> MHz) rather than ÷2 (10 MHz) or ÷2.5 (8 MHz).
>
> Yes, and the remaining users should set the kernel option. Both of them.
> The question is: How will they be told about the new kernel option?

What exactly are you guys still talking about? Alan is looking at drivers
and finds that in them outb_p is generally correct and correctly specified
in bus-clocks for at least some (8390 was quoted). In those legacy drivers,
the _p ops can simply stay and can use the 15-year old proven 0x80 outb.

(with molnar suggesting they be renamed isa_in/outb_p and me suggesting that
if someone would be doing _that_ they might as well split them manually in
outb(); slow_down_io() possibly renaming slow_down_io() to isa_io_delay() or
similar).

Is this only about the ones then left for things like legacy PIC and PIT?
Does anyone care about just sticking in a udelay(2) (or 1) there as a
replacement and call it a day?

Rene.

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