From: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
"David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>,
Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Paul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
rol <rol@witbe.net>
Subject: Re: [linux-kernel] Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:26:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080109212615.5908fd3c@weinigel.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47850FE3.2040001@zytor.com>
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:18:11 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
> >
> > I'm speaking specifically in terms of 64-bit platforms here.
> > Shouldn't we unconditionally drop outb_p doing extra port I/O on
> > 64-bit architectures? Especially considering they don't even have
> > an ISA bus where the decode timing could even matter?
> >
>
> Why should the bitsize of the CPU matter for this? It seems one of
> the less meaningful keys for this.
Well, anything that runs x86_64 should be a fairly modern system.
> Second, as I have mentioned, I don't believe this is really the case,
> especially not for the PIT, which is still present -- the PIT
> *semantics* has explicit timing constraints.
>
> Third, you still have ISA devices, they're just called LPC or PC104
> devices these days.
Or PCMCIA. I'm still a happy user of a Zyxel ZyAIR 100B, it's one of
the most stable cards Wifi I've got running under Linux. :-)
/Christer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-09 20:26 UTC|newest]
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2008-01-07 19:38 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 19:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 22:02 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 22:27 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 22:59 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-07 23:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-07 23:26 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-08 0:10 ` [linux-kernel] " David P. Reed
2008-01-08 0:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-08 1:38 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 17:10 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-01-08 17:24 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 17:38 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-01-08 18:44 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 18:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 19:15 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 19:23 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 19:51 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-09 2:52 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-01-09 5:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-09 21:53 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-01-09 22:22 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-11 1:36 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-01-11 3:05 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-11 14:35 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-11 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-11 15:07 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-11 17:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-11 14:49 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-14 21:57 ` David Woodhouse
2008-01-14 22:22 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-16 14:36 ` David Newall
2008-01-16 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-16 19:15 ` David Newall
2008-01-16 20:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-17 6:25 ` David Newall
2008-01-17 12:02 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-17 13:36 ` David Newall
2008-01-17 13:55 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-17 21:58 ` David Newall
2008-01-17 22:13 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-18 13:37 ` David Newall
2008-01-18 14:05 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-17 15:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-09 5:30 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-01-09 14:42 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-09 15:27 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-09 18:17 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-01-09 18:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-09 20:26 ` Christer Weinigel [this message]
2008-01-09 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-09 18:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-09 18:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-08 19:25 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-01-08 20:28 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 21:43 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-01-08 22:24 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-08 18:51 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-08 19:13 ` Ondrej Zary
2008-01-09 21:01 ` Matthieu castet
2008-01-08 12:51 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-08 13:07 ` [linux-kernel] " David P. Reed
2008-01-08 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 14:09 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-08 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-07 23:57 ` [linux-kernel] " David P. Reed
2008-01-08 1:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-07 23:25 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 13:17 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-08 14:38 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-08 3:15 ` Christer Weinigel
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2008-01-10 0:37 ` [linux-kernel] " Robert Hancock
2008-01-10 0:44 ` Rene Herman
2008-01-10 14:41 ` David P. Reed
2007-12-17 13:02 Rene Herman
2007-12-17 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-17 19:43 ` David P. Reed
2007-12-17 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 15:59 ` David P. Reed
2008-01-01 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 16:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-01 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-01 18:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-01 21:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-02 10:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-02 13:11 ` [linux-kernel] " David P. Reed
2008-01-02 13:21 ` Ingo Molnar
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