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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.
On Fri 2007-12-14 10:02:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> wow, cool fix! (I remember that there were other systems as well that are
>> affected by port 0x80 muckery - i thought we had removed port 0x80
>> accesses long ago.)
>> how about the simpler fix below, as a first-level approach? We can then
>> remove the _p in/out sequences after this.
>
> I believe this will suffer from the issue that was raised: this will use
> udelay() long before loop calibration (and no, we can't just "be
> conservative" since there is no "conservative" value we can use.)

?? Just initialize bogomips to 6GHz equivalent... and we are fine
until 6GHz cpus come out.
Pavel
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