Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:27:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>, Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
       Paul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, rol@witbe.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
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On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:

> > But overclocking is not the problem for udelay, it would err to the saf=
e
> > side. The problem would be a BUS having < 8 MHz, and since the days of
> > 80286, they are hard to find. IMO having an option to set the bus speed
> > for those systems should be enough.
> >=20
>=20
> There might have been a few 386/20's clocking the ISA bus at =AD=AD=F73
> (6.67 MHz) rather than =F72 (10 MHz) or =F72.5 (8 MHz).

Yes, and the remaining users should set the kernel option. Both of them.
The question is: How will they be told about the new kernel option?
--=20
A man inserted an advertisement in the classified: Wife Wanted."
The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the
same thing: "You can have mine."
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