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On 09/13/2010 08:25 AM, Shérab wrote:
> 
>> (For that matter, are there machines that will get indigestion
>> at this sort of unexpected inb() access?)
> 

Yes, there are... since it's an address which can contain any kind of
I/O device.

	-hpa

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