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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Note, however, that your code doesn't deal with io_delay()'s in the boot
> code (arch/x86/boot) at all, nor (obviously) io_delay()'s in boot
> loaders. In the boot code, access to DMI data is NOT available (we
> can't even use the INT 15h mover if we want to continue to support
> Loadlin.)
>

Correction: DMI data are at least supposedly available via the PNPBIOS
calls specified in the SMBIOS spec.

-hpa


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