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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 14:39:56 -0800 (PST)
From: John Heil <kerndev@sc-software.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IO delay, port 0x80, and BIOS POST codes
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:55:45 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> To: John Heil <kerndev@sc-software.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: IO delay, port 0x80, and BIOS POST codes
>
> > > It is, in fact, broken on several systems -- I tried ED in SYSLINUX
> > > for a while, and it broke things for people.
> >
> > It does work on many, in fact, we used on a Crusoe based platform
> > as well as the other x86s
> >
> > Let's make it a configurable kernel debug/hacking option else
> > we have the added burden of chasing down a common address.
>
> We've got one. Its 0x80. It works everywhere with only marginal non
> problematic side effects
>

Ok, cool but does that mean you agree or disagree with a configurable
override for those of us in the minority?

Johnh

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