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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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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-27 23:48 UTC|newest]

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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