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SubjectRe: IO port conflict between timer & watchdog on PCISA-C800EV board ?
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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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