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SubjectRe: [patch 5/5] i8253: Cleanup outb/inb magic
On 06/09/2011 06:34 AM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 01:08:30PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
>> Remove the hysterical outb/inb_pit defines and use outb_p/inb_p in the
>> code.
>
> FWIW, I've traced the use of inb_p and outb_p to access the PIT timer
> all the way back to Linux 0.10
>
> I wonder if any of the systems affected actually has enough memory to boot
> a modern kernel or if the _p versions have become useless bagagge that
> should be dropped - cleanup which would then also allow more code to the
> iomap() API.
>
> I'm interested because quite a few MIPS systems have been built based on
> Intel, OPTi and other chipsets which may or may not have been affected.
>

On the x86 side, we already have configurability of the delay in
inb_p/outb_p... one option could be null delay.

-hpa



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