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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sh=E9rab?= <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: EuroBraille/Iris power off
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Hi,

> Is it actually safe to assume that this will do the right thing on a machine that
> is a non-Iris that has something *else* at that I/O  address?

No it's probably not safe.

> Any further sanity checking we can do?

I have asked the manufacturer and will be happy to provide patches to
implement them but I doubt there will be some.

> (For that matter, are there machines that will get indigestion
> at this sort of unexpected inb() access?)

That, I don't know.

Shérab.