Re: interrupt latency

Richard B. Johnson
2002-08-28T15:32:14Z

On 28 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> I would expect port 0x378 on any modern PC to be on the X-bus not on ISA

Correct. All that stuff is in the Super-I/O chip now-a-days as I
previously stated. It's also called the GP bus (General Purpose).
It doesn't have slots and their attendent capacity so it's a lot
faster than ISA was.

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