From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759937AbYBRUoi (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:44:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752341AbYBRUoa (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:44:30 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41546 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752087AbYBRUo3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:44:29 -0500 Message-ID: <47B9EDF1.5050404@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:43:29 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rene Herman CC: "David P. Reed" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use explicit timing delay for pit accesses in kernel and pcspkr driver References: <6gr00g$g7qpu0@smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net> <47B9ECE0.70000@keyaccess.nl> In-Reply-To: <47B9ECE0.70000@keyaccess.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rene Herman wrote: > > Now with respect to the original pre port 80 "jmp $+2" I/O delay (which > the Pentium obsoleted) I suppose it'll probably be okay even without > fixing that specifically but do note such -- it's a vital part of the > problem. > Sorry, that paragraph didn't parse for me. -hpa