Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765122AbXLQVw7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763363AbXLQVwg (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:36 -0500 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.184]:23002 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761569AbXLQVwe (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:52:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=iG2qWsmeBlSnBNxUgFI/RpmU44KsQIQm2iAYyS/g2IbPraiNWtLby9zymobBELOIVTm6fpRFbF4YnL6bcZ1R3i0mcHcV2wawym2jeU8VRsp2oxL96W0E/fam7KfZ6DFsvuU05Ab51mphbRHYMUxIkFnLVTckdY7Ho9TlAaEgMmY= Message-ID: <4766EF28.5070807@keyaccess.nl> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:50:32 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Rene Herman , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , "David P. Reed" , Paul Rolland , Pavel Machek , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rol@witbe.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. References: <476462BE.3030701@gmail.com> <4764687D.6080609@zytor.com> <476524DB.7020806@gmail.com> <20071216152250.GA21245@elte.hu> <4765D43E.1010800@gmail.com> <20071217105744.GA14315@elte.hu> <4766684D.40202@gmail.com> <20071217130933.GB27992@elte.hu> <47667812.8050708@gmail.com> <47667A85.3080100@reed.com> <20071217143900.GA16604@elte.hu> <20071217161243.05c32df4@the-village.bc.nu> <4766E086.9090500@gmail.com> <4766E2B5.8080001@zytor.com> <4766EB45.6010402@keyaccess.nl> <4766ECE2.1060604@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4766ECE2.1060604@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Rene Herman Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 945 Lines: 25 On 17-12-07 22:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rene Herman wrote: >> >> Well, yes, I guess that does make sense. It's back again. Named the >> choices "standard" and "alternate" again as I feel "0x80" and "0xed" >> suggest they're free values a bit too much but if anyone feels >> strongly about it, so be it. >> > > They ARE -- or really, should be, free values (0xeb and 0xf0 are other > reasonable values, for example.) I was afraid someone would say that. Making a random port available is fine for testing purposes but a failry dangerous thing to do generally. For a minimal version at -rc4 time, I believe sticking with 0x80 and 0xed ie best. Lots of time during .25 to go wild... 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/