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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Luiz <rodrigo@gus-mg.org>,
	malattia@linux.it, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: delete check for AML access to port 0x81-83
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 07:23:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090409062346.GA8101@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904071754230.4799@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:56:09PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> 
> Sony laptops apparently write 4-bytes (rather than 1 byte)
> to debug port 0x80, which spews error messages:

So admittedly I should just check the spec here instead, but: what does 
a 4 byte write to an io port mean? It seems a bit odd that Sonys could 
be scribbling over DMA1 without causing any problems. Is Windows turning 
this into a single byte write to the defined io port instead?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-09  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-06  0:27 sony-laptop: ACPI Exception when a Fn-Key is pressed Rodrigo Luiz
2009-04-06 11:01 ` Mattia Dongili
2009-04-06 13:13   ` Rodrigo Luiz
2009-04-07  2:13     ` yakui_zhao
2009-04-07  4:54       ` Len Brown
2009-04-07  5:00   ` Len Brown
2009-04-07  5:12   ` Len Brown
2009-04-07 19:46     ` Rodrigo Luiz
2009-04-07 21:27 ` Len Brown
2009-04-07 21:56 ` [PATCH] ACPICA: delete check for AML access to port 0x81-83 Len Brown
2009-04-08  1:20   ` Rodrigo Luiz
2009-04-08  1:46   ` Mattia Dongili
2009-04-09  6:23   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-04-09 14:56     ` Moore, Robert

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