Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758320AbXLPAHJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:07:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753555AbXLPAG5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:06:57 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54485 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752504AbXLPAG4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:06:56 -0500 Message-ID: <47646BDE.5080006@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:05:50 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rene Herman CC: Paul Rolland , Alan Cox , Pavel Machek , Ingo Molnar , "David P. Reed" , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Rene Herman , rol@witbe.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc. References: <469578CD.3080609@reed.com> <1184216528.12353.203.camel@chaos> <1184218962.12353.209.camel@chaos> <46964352.7040301@reed.com> <1184253339.12353.223.camel@chaos> <469697C6.50903@reed.com> <1184274754.12353.254.camel@chaos> <4761F193.7090400@reed.com> <20071214131502.GA14359@elte.hu> <4762C551.5070003@zytor.com> <20071214210652.GB28793@elf.ucw.cz> <4763001A.1070102@zytor.com> <20071214232955.545ab809@the-village.bc.nu> <20071215080831.404cdb32@tux.DEF.witbe.net> <47638C8C.2090604@gmail.com> <476438B4.2020600@zytor.com> <476462BE.3030701@gmail.com> <4764687D.6080609@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4764687D.6080609@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 686 Lines: 18 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Note, however, that your code doesn't deal with io_delay()'s in the boot > code (arch/x86/boot) at all, nor (obviously) io_delay()'s in boot > loaders. In the boot code, access to DMI data is NOT available (we > can't even use the INT 15h mover if we want to continue to support > Loadlin.) > Correction: DMI data are at least supposedly available via the PNPBIOS calls specified in the SMBIOS spec. -hpa -- 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/