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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@quramnet.com>,
	Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>,
	Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Paul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	rol <rol@witbe.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-kernel] Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:19:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47845972.9090803@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1199847162.7369.323.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com>

Zachary Amsden wrote:
> 
> BTW, it isn't ever safe to pass port 0x80 through to hardware from a
> virtual machine; some OSes use port 0x80 as a hardware available scratch
> register (I believe Darwin/x86 did/does this during boot).

That's funny, because there is definitely no guarantee that you get back 
what you read (well, perhaps there is on Apple.)

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-09  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2008-01-07 19:38                       ` [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 19:46                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 22:02                           ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 22:10                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 22:27                               ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 22:59                                 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-07 23:24                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 23:26                                     ` Rene Herman
2008-01-08  0:10                                       ` [linux-kernel] " David P. Reed
2008-01-08  0:13                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-08  1:38                                           ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 17:10                                             ` Ondrej Zary
2008-01-08 17:24                                               ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 17:38                                                 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-01-08 18:44                                                   ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 18:51                                                     ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 19:15                                                       ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 19:23                                                         ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 19:51                                                           ` David P. Reed
2008-01-09  2:52                                                         ` Zachary Amsden
2008-01-09  5:19                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-01-09 21:53                                                             ` Zachary Amsden
2008-01-09 22:22                                                               ` David P. Reed
2008-01-11  1:36                                                                 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-01-11  3:05                                                                   ` Rene Herman
2008-01-11 14:35                                                                     ` David P. Reed
2008-01-11 14:37                                                                       ` Alan Cox
2008-01-11 15:07                                                                         ` David P. Reed
2008-01-11 17:54                                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-11 14:49                                                                       ` Rene Herman
2008-01-14 21:57                                                                       ` David Woodhouse
2008-01-14 22:22                                                                         ` David P. Reed
2008-01-16 14:36                                                                           ` David Newall
2008-01-16 14:55                                                                             ` Alan Cox
2008-01-16 19:15                                                                               ` David Newall
2008-01-16 20:08                                                                                 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-17  6:25                                                                                   ` David Newall
2008-01-17 12:02                                                                                     ` Alan Cox
2008-01-17 13:36                                                                                       ` David Newall
2008-01-17 13:55                                                                                         ` Rene Herman
2008-01-17 21:58                                                                                           ` David Newall
2008-01-17 22:13                                                                                             ` Rene Herman
2008-01-18 13:37                                                                                               ` David Newall
2008-01-18 14:05                                                                                                 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-17 15:51                                                                                         ` Alan Cox
2008-01-09  5:30                                                           ` Christer Weinigel
2008-01-09 14:42                                                             ` David P. Reed
2008-01-09 15:27                                                             ` Rene Herman
2008-01-09 18:17                                                               ` Zachary Amsden
2008-01-09 18:18                                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-09 20:26                                                                   ` Christer Weinigel
2008-01-09 21:59                                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-09 18:22                                                                 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-09 18:27                                                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-08 19:25                                                     ` Christer Weinigel
2008-01-08 20:28                                                       ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 21:43                                                         ` Christer Weinigel
2008-01-08 22:24                                                           ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 18:51                                                   ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-08 19:13                                                     ` Ondrej Zary
2008-01-09 21:01                                         ` Matthieu castet
2008-01-08 12:51                                       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-08 13:07                                         ` [linux-kernel] " David P. Reed
2008-01-08 14:37                                           ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 14:09                                         ` Rene Herman
2008-01-08 14:31                                         ` Alan Cox
2008-01-07 23:57                                     ` [linux-kernel] " David P. Reed
2008-01-08  1:58                                       ` Alan Cox
2008-01-07 23:25                             ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 13:17                               ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-08 14:38                                 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08  3:15                         ` Christer Weinigel
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2008-01-10  0:37           ` [linux-kernel] " Robert Hancock
2008-01-10  0:44             ` Rene Herman
2008-01-10 14:41               ` David P. Reed
2007-12-17 13:02 Rene Herman
2007-12-17 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-17 19:43   ` David P. Reed
2007-12-17 21:25     ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 15:59       ` David P. Reed
2008-01-01 16:15         ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 16:43           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-01 17:32             ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 18:45               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-01 21:07                 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-02 10:04                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-02 13:11                     ` [linux-kernel] " David P. Reed
2008-01-02 13:21                       ` Ingo Molnar

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