From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VGA PCI IO port reservations
Date: 28 Nov 2000 00:10:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7qhCHlbmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E13xBNJ-0001r5-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <8v4oe5$vbl$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <E13xBNJ-0001r5-00@the-village.bc.nu>
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 18.11.00 in <E13xBNJ-0001r5-00@the-village.bc.nu>:
> > It is. There are plenty of devices for which an arbitrary IN is an
> > irrecoverable state transition.
>
> The ne2000 clones being the most infamous of them. Blind ISA read probing is
> not a safe business
Hell, I've had machines crashing in the BIOS pre-boot stuff because it was
doing INs where a NE2000 sat.
MfG Kai
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-17 16:20 VGA PCI IO port reservations Russell King
2000-11-17 16:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 16:46 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 16:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 16:58 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 17:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 17:11 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 21:43 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2000-11-17 22:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-18 17:41 ` About IOs, ISA, PCI, and life (WAS: VGA PCI IO port...) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-11-17 17:13 ` VGA PCI IO port reservations Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-17 17:20 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 17:30 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-17 18:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-17 19:52 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 19:59 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-17 20:02 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 20:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-18 1:20 ` Olivier Galibert
2000-11-18 2:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-18 17:02 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-27 22:10 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2000-11-17 21:35 ` Marcus Sundberg
2000-11-17 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-17 20:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-17 16:47 ` Brian Gerst
2000-11-17 16:56 ` Russell King
2000-11-17 17:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-17 18:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-17 18:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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