Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > 80 makes me suspicious.)   That might mean that the freeze happens only
> > when certain values are written, or when they are written closely in
> > time to some other action - being used to communicate something to the
> > SMM code).   If there is some race in when Linux's port 80 writes happen
> > that happen to change the meaning of a request to the hardware or to
> > SMM, then we could be rarely stepping on
>
> That does imply some muppet 'extended' the debug interface for power
> management on your laptop. Also pretty much proves that for such systems
> we do have to move from port 0x80 to another delay approach.
>
> Ingo - the fact that so many ISA bus devices need _p to mean "ISA bus
> clocks" says to me we should keep the _p port 0x80 using variant for old
> systems/device combinations (eg ISA ethernet cards) which won't show up
> in any problem system (we know this from 15 odd years of testing), but
> stop using it for PCI and embedded devices on modern systems.

I have mentioned this before... I think writing zero to port 0xf0 would 
be an acceptable pause interface (to the extent where we need an I/O 
port) except on 386 with 387 present; on those systems we can fall back 
to 0x80.

	-hpa
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