Re: [PATCH 1/2]: serial8250: Use native_io_delay on the x86

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Mar 17 2010 - 14:44:53 EST


On 03/17/2010 11:36 AM, Alan Cox wrote:

You just need a write to something on the ISA bus which is 'safe' so that
you don't end up reading back what you wrote to an non-existant port as
some old chipsets will return the last ISA result when you do this rather
than 0xff.

Ah... floating bus syndrome. So how about writing 0xff to the SCR register in the same register range?

-hpa
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