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From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI code:  why need  outb (0x01, 0xCFB); ?
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 21:49:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACAEBD1F1C@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)

On  8 Jan 03 at 10:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > 1. which device is at port address 0xCFB?
> 
> Hopefully none.

Actually I'm not sure. This code is here since at least 2.0.28,
and during googling I even found code for direct PCI access
(http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/viewzip.cgi/hs_freeware/gerald.zip/DIRECTNT.CPP?auto=CPP)
which sets lowest bit at 0xCFB to 1 before doing PCI config
accesses and reset it back to original value afterward.

So I believe that there were some chipsets (probably in 486&PCI times)
which did conf1/conf2 accesses depending on value of this bit.
Unfortunately I was not able to confirm this - almost nobody provides
northbridge datasheets from '94 era, even Intel does not provide them
(f.e. Neptune) anymore :-(
                                                Best regards,
                                                    Petr Vandrovec
                                                    vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                    

             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 20:49 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2003-01-08 21:22 ` PCI code: why need outb (0x01, 0xCFB); ? Maciej W. Rozycki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-08 21:33 Petr Vandrovec
2003-01-08 21:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2003-01-08 19:10 Nakajima, Jun
2003-01-08 20:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-01-08 21:37   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-07  2:24 fretre lewis
2003-01-06 13:02 fretre lewis
2003-01-06  9:26 fretre lewis
2003-01-06 12:41 ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-01-08 18:52 ` H. Peter Anvin

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