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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: reason for delay in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c::io_check_error()?
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:49:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090310034939.GC11935@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B56F18.1050904@nortel.com>

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:33:44PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just wondering about the basis for the delay in io_check_error(). 
>  The ICH7 manual doesn't have any mention of a delay being required 
> here--is it necessary for other hardware, something not mentioned in the 
> manual, or just an accident?

The complete NMI error logging handling does not really apply to any modern 
chipset; it's for ancient hardware (286, 386 generation). Those often
needed strange delays too.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-10  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-09 19:33 reason for delay in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c::io_check_error()? Chris Friesen
2009-03-10  3:49 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-03-10 15:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-12 16:20   ` Chris Friesen

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