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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Charles-Edouard Ruault <ce@idtect.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IO port conflict between timer & watchdog on PCISA-C800EV board ?
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:04:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1108487045.4618.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <420734DC.4020900@idtect.com>

On Llu, 2005-02-07 at 09:29, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote:
> - Why is the generic timer using this address ? isn't it reserving a too 
> wide portion of IO ports ? Should it be modified for this board ?

It just reserved the entire chip space since way back when.

> -  If there's a good reason for the timer to request this address, is  
> there a clean way to share it with the timer ?

Submit a small patch to Linus/Andrew to make the generic code only
reserve the ports it should. It's just a historical oversight


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-02-15 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-07  9:29 IO port conflict between timer & watchdog on PCISA-C800EV board ? Charles-Edouard Ruault
2005-02-07 16:31 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-02-07 17:00   ` linux-os
2005-02-07 17:33     ` Charles-Edouard Ruault
2005-02-07 17:32   ` Charles-Edouard Ruault
2005-02-07 17:57   ` Ondrej Zary
2005-02-15 17:04 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-02-21 13:06   ` [PATCH] Reserve only needed regions for PC timers on i386 and x86_64 Charles-Edouard Ruault
2005-02-23  7:23     ` Marcelo Tosatti

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