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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IO delay, port 0x80, and BIOS POST codes
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:52:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020315135240.A5979@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73lmcuyrov.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203151347110.1477-100000@biker.pdb.fsc.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203151347110.1477-100000@biker.pdb.fsc.net>

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:47:39PM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > > It doesn't even have to be a config option - a line
> > >
> > > /* Port used for dummy writes for I/O delays */
> > > /* Change this only if you know what you're doing ! */
> > > #define DUMMY_IO_PORT 0x80
> > >
> > > in a header file would perfectly suffice.
> >
> > That effectively already exists. You just need to change the __SLOW_DOWN_IO
> > macro in include/asm-i387/io.h
> 
> No, that doesn't cover all accesses to port 80. I am still searching.

It should. I would consider all other accesses a bug.
It is possible that some driver used it for private debugging and left it in by 
mistake. These should be removed.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-15 12:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3C90E983.5AC769B8@ngforever.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203151243430.1477-100000@biker.pdb.fsc.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-15 11:51   ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-15 12:47     ` Martin Wilck
2002-03-15 12:52       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-03-15 17:41         ` [PATCH] Cleanup port 0x80 use (was: Re: IO delay ...) Martin Wilck
2002-03-15 18:05           ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 20:41             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-15 21:33               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-15 21:37               ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16  0:01                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-15 18:57           ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-15 20:17             ` Martin Wilck
2002-03-17  2:01               ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-18  9:18                 ` Martin Wilck
2002-03-18  9:39                   ` Keith Owens
2002-03-18 11:20                     ` Martin Wilck
2002-03-18 15:22                   ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-15 17:39 IO delay, port 0x80, and BIOS POST codes Gerald Champagne
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-15 15:07 Thunder from the hill
2002-03-14 18:18 Thunder from the hill
2002-03-15 11:46 ` Martin Wilck
2002-03-14 17:11 Martin Wilck
2002-03-14 17:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-14 18:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-14 19:23   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-14 19:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-14 20:43     ` John Heil
2002-03-14 21:03       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-14 21:19         ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
2002-03-14 21:26           ` John Heil
2002-03-14 21:41           ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-14 21:26         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-14 21:44           ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-14 21:56             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-14 22:11               ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-14 22:20                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-14 22:25                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-14 22:58                     ` Alan Cox
2002-03-14 22:56                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-14 21:11       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-14 21:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-14 21:57         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-14 22:06           ` John Heil
2002-03-14 22:55             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-14 22:39               ` John Heil
2002-03-14 23:29                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15  0:12               ` David Golden
2002-03-15  0:11                 ` John Heil
2002-03-19 14:25                 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-15 11:30         ` Eric W. Biederman

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