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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:23:10 +0100 (MET)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> >  Hmm, has anyone tried using the "read back" 8254 command for latching,
> > instead?  Chances are it's less buggy... 
> 
> We can try, but I think that it's more likely to be more buggy, because
> it isn't widely used by software. And at least according to the 8254
> docs they should be equivalent in what they do.

 Are you sure it isn't used?  Do you have sources of various operating
systems to check?  I don't.

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