Re: VGA PCI IO port reservations

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 12:02:00 EST


> It is. There are plenty of devices for which an arbitrary IN is an
> irrecoverable state transition.

The ne2000 clones being the most infamous of them. Blind ISA read probing is
not a safe business

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