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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:35:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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Subject: Re: [2.5.63 PATCH][TRIVIAL]Change rtc.c ioport extend from 10h to 8h
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On 26 Feb 2003, Rusty Lynch wrote:

> The real time clock only needs 8 bytes, but rtc.c is reserving 10h bytes.
[SNIPPED...]

It only needs two bytes port 0x70 and port 0x71 in ix86. Since the Sparc
gets addressed differently and can only read/write words, it needs 8
bytes.  Please, if you are going to fix it, please fix it only once by
setting a different length for the different machines!
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.


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