Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2007-12-14 10:02:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > wow, cool fix! (I remember that there were other systems as well that are 
> > > affected by port 0x80 muckery - i thought we had removed port 0x80 
> > > accesses long ago.)
> > > how about the simpler fix below, as a first-level approach? We can then 
> > > remove the _p in/out sequences after this.
> > I believe this will suffer from the issue that was raised: this will use 
> > udelay() long before loop calibration (and no, we can't just "be 
> > conservative" since there is no "conservative" value we can use.)
>
> ?? Just initialize bogomips to 6GHz equivalent... and we are fine
> until 6GHz cpus come out.

How long will that take to boot on a 386?

	-hpa
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