Re: Timer allocates too many ports

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:33:19 +0200 Pierre Ossman wrote:

| Hi!

Ho-

| The timer in linux allocates the io ports 0x40 to 0x5F. This is causing 
| some problems for me since the hardware I'm writing a driver for has its 
| ports at 0x4E and 0x4F. In Windows the ports 0x40 to 0x43 are used for 
| the timer. Why does linux allocate so many more ports?

Seems reasonable to me for Linux timer driver (resource) to allocate
0x40 - 0x43 and 0x50 - 0x53 (on intel x86; only 0x40 - 0x43 for AMD x86-64).
At least that's what is in some Intel specs.  That would be accurate
AFAIK and still leave 0x4e - 0x4f available.

What kind of device uses IO addresses 0x4e - 0x4f?
Is it a motherboard device?  Intel ICH specs think that 0x4e - 0x4f
are for LPC SIO and are forwarded to the LPC device.


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~Randy
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