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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Buffered IO for IO?
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:44:35 +0100
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On 20/7/07 22:33, "Zulauf, John" <john.zulauf@intel.com> wrote:

> Has anyone experimented with adding Buffered IO support for "out"
> instructions?  Currently, the buffered io pages is only used for mmio
> writes (and then only to vga space).  It seems quite straight-forward to
> add.

Is it safe to buffer, and hence arbitrarily delay, any I/O port write?

 -- Keir