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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:31:27 -0800
From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux Post codes during runtime, possibly OT
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It occurs to me that it might be a good idea to pick a different port for
these things.  I know a lot of people who want to use port 80h for
debugging data, especially in embedded x86 systems.

Matt

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 02:26:36PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Followup to:  <3A709E99.25ADE5F6@echostar.com>
> By author:    "Ian S. Nelson" <ian.nelson@echostar.com>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > I'm curious.  Why does Linux make that friendly 98/9a/88 looking
> > postcode pattern when it's running?  DOS and DOS95 don't do that.
> >=20
> > I'm begining to feel like I can tell the system health by observing it,
> > kind of like "seeing the matrix."
> >=20
>=20
> It output garbage to the 80h port in order to enforce I/O delays.
> It's one of the safe ports to issue outs to.
>=20
> 	-hpa
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