From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268730AbUHTUfG (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:35:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268727AbUHTUcR (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:32:17 -0400 Received: from a26.t1.student.liu.se ([130.236.221.26]:39123 "EHLO mail.drzeus.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264973AbUHTUbh (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:31:37 -0400 Message-ID: <4126600F.4050302@drzeus.cx> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:33:19 +0200 From: Pierre Ossman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040704) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Timer allocates too many ports X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! The timer in linux allocates the io ports 0x40 to 0x5F. This is causing some problems for me since the hardware I'm writing a driver for has its ports at 0x4E and 0x4F. In Windows the ports 0x40 to 0x43 are used for the timer. Why does linux allocate so many more ports? Rgds Pierre Ossman