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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Isolate PIC/PIT in/out calls
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:51:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080114155124.GA14177@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080111181846.5ead1220@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>


* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> Rather than remove and/or mangle inb_p/outb_p we want to remove the 
> use of them from inappropriate places. For the PIC/PIT this may 
> eventually depend on 32/64bitism or similar so start by adding 
> inb/outb_pit and inb/outb_pic so that we can make them use any scheme 
> we settle on without disturbing the existing, correct (for ISA), port 
> 0x80 usage. (eg we can make inb_pit use udelay without messing up 
> inb_p).
> 
> Floppy already does this for the fdc. That really only leaves the CMOS 
> as a core logic item to tackle, and bits of parallel port handling in 
> the chipset layers.

thanks, applied.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-14 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 18:18 [PATCH] x86: Isolate PIC/PIT in/out calls Alan Cox
2008-01-14 15:51 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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