Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:05:50 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc. |
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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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