Re: [PATCH] x86: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 onsome AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

[H. Peter Anvin]

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
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