Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

Alan Cox
2007-12-17T00:11:24Z

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:26:33 +0100
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> On Fri 2007-12-14 15:33:28, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > There is another reason we can't just do a dumb changeover - two
> > > actually
> > >
> > > #1: Some drivers are using inb_p/outb_p in PCI cases which are going
> > > #to cause PCI posting changes. Most are probably just wrong in the
> > > #first place but they need hand checking
> >
> > hm, any intelligent way to force PCI posting? I guess not.
> >
> > here's a list of candidate drivers (match the out*_p() pattern and do
> > pci)
> >
> > ./char/epca.c
> > ./char/sonypi.c
> > ./scsi/megaraid.c
> > ./ide/pci/serverworks.c
> > ./ide/pci/cmd640.c
> > ./input/mouse/pc110pad.c

You are missing some watchdogs at least ?