Re: What pokes the ISA IO port of 0x211 ?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Frantisek Rysanek
> <Frantisek.Rysanek@post.cz> wrote:
>>  I'm dealing with an embedded PC motherboard that contains some custom
>>  circuitry (GPIO), accessible via an ISA IO range between 0x200 and
>>  0x218.
>>
>>  There's an interesting issue with this in recent Linux (tried
>>  2.6.22.6 and 2.6.24.2): something probes IO port 0x211 on boot, which
>>  happens to be an add-on buzzer control port - effectively the kernel
>>  boot launches an accoustic alarm :-)
>>
>>  Any ideas what this could be?
> 
> Did you already have a look at /proc/ioports ? This file should
> contain every range of ISA bus address in use by any kernel component.
>

This might not be the case if a probe fails and the driver unload 
itself.  It might be easiest to put in a hack in the kernel by hacking 
outb/outw/outl and print stack trace when called when trying to poke 
this port.

For what it's worth, this port is specified as "Game Blaster" in the 
Interrupt List.

	-hpa