Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IO port conflict between timer & watchdog on PCISA-C800EV board ? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:04:08 +0000 |
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On Llu, 2005-02-07 at 09:29, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > - Why is the generic timer using this address ? isn't it reserving a too > wide portion of IO ports ? Should it be modified for this board ?
It just reserved the entire chip space since way back when.
> - If there's a good reason for the timer to request this address, is > there a clean way to share it with the timer ?
Submit a small patch to Linus/Andrew to make the generic code only reserve the ports it should. It's just a historical oversight
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