Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751866AbXLIFGA (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:06:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750712AbXLIFFw (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:05:52 -0500 Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.201]:60956 "EHLO smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750702AbXLIFFv (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 00:05:51 -0500 Message-ID: <475B7763.5000008@keyaccess.nl> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:04:35 +0100 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David P. Reed" CC: Alan Cox , 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 References: <475879CD.9080006@reed.com> <20071207160439.71b7f46a@the-village.bc.nu> <475AEF8E.5040906@reed.com> In-Reply-To: <475AEF8E.5040906@reed.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 17 On 08-12-07 20:25, David P. Reed wrote: > In any case, my machine does not have an ISA bus. Why should it? It's > a laptop! A bus is not something with expansion slots. Your machine has an ISA bus, or LPC rather, if only to hang its BIOS of. That earlier report about BIOS chips shitting themselves due to aborts on LPC together with ACPI involving the BIOS sounds a bit suspicious (and in that case using 0xed shouldn't help any). Rene. -- 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/