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

Rene Herman
2007-12-07T16:29:25Z

On 07-12-07 16:43, Rene Herman wrote:

> On 07-12-07 15:54, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>>> My machine in question, for example, needs no waiting within
>>> CMOS_READs at all. And I doubt any other chip/device needs waiting
>>> that isn't
>>
>> I don't know about CMOS, but there were definitely some not too ancient
>> systems (let's say not more than 10 years) who required IO delays in the
>> floppy driver and the 8253/8259. But on those the jumps are already
>> far too fast.
>
> Also see Alan's replies in the thread I posted a link to:
>
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2003-09/5700.html
>
> Also 8254 (PIT) at least it seems.

By the way, David, it would be interesting if you could test 0xed. If your
problem is some piece of hardware getting upset at LPC bus aborts it's not
going to matter and we'd know an outb delay is just not an option on your
system at least. You said you could quickly reproduce the problem with port
0x80?

Rene.