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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: hpa@zytor.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Rajneesh Bhardwaj <rajneesh.bhardwaj@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Gupta <anshuman.gupta@intel.com>,
	glx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	rjw@rjwysocki.net, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] x86: i8237: Register based on FADT legacy boot flag
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:55:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522076116.16723.13.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A68406D-B05E-4953-89D1-D2AB49904644@zytor.com>

> Can we probe safely for this device?

99% of the time yes the inb gives us a straight answer. However (and
we've hit this with port 0x81 for real) there are concerns that some
systems will trap those addresses into SMM and do weirdness that makes
the 0xFF check fail.

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-26 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-14  5:17 [PATCH v2] x86: i8237: Register based on FADT legacy boot flag Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-14 12:48 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-03-14 15:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]   ` <20180319104627.GA2959@anshuman.gupta@intel.com>
2018-03-19 10:57     ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-22 10:21       ` [PATCH v3] " Anshuman Gupta
2018-03-22 11:05         ` Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-22 11:17           ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-25 11:50         ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-26  5:48           ` Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-26  9:11             ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-26 10:34               ` hpa
2018-03-26 10:51                 ` Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-26 14:55                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2018-03-29 15:06               ` [PATCH v4] " Anshuman Gupta
2018-04-27 15:06                 ` [tip:x86/dma] x86/i8237: Register device " tip-bot for Rajneesh Bhardwaj
2018-03-26 14:52           ` [PATCH v3] x86: i8237: Register " Alan Cox

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