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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: time() glitch on 2.4.18: solved
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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 19:29, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> The only hardware a modern PC needs to use "slow-down_io" on is
> the RTC CMOS device. Since we need to support older boards, you
> don't want to remove the _p options indiscriminately, but you do
> not want them ever between two consecutive writes to the same device-
> port.

I own at least one that needs the _p on the DMA controller and at one
that needs _p on the PIT


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