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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Impractical ideas?
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Perhaps not. I'm used to dealing with constained systems though.

Try bit-banging a port without having the timing be deterministic.

But you may have a point on desktops. I'm no expert on the PCI bus.

-- John.

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 18:34, Jason Gress wrote:
> I hate to feed the fire ;), but it would seem that drivers couldn't use too 
> much timing information as they can never expect a certain time for anything.