Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755172AbXLGOyl (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:54:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751320AbXLGOyd (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:54:33 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:53919 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750901AbXLGOyd (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:54:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:54:30 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: "David P. Reed" Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops Message-ID: <20071207145430.GA5992@one.firstfloor.org> References: <475879CD.9080006@reed.com> <47595DB2.5080302@reed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47595DB2.5080302@reed.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 627 Lines: 14 > My machine in question, for example, needs no waiting within CMOS_READs > at all. And I doubt any other chip/device needs waiting that isn't I don't know about CMOS, but there were definitely some not too ancient systems (let's say not more than 10 years) who required IO delays in the floppy driver and the 8253/8259. But on those the jumps are already far too fast. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/