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
next prev 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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