Re: [linux-kernel] Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80I/O delay override.

[Rene Herman]

On 11-01-08 15:35, David P. Reed wrote:

> Rene Herman wrote:
> > On 11-01-08 02:36, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> >
> > > FWIW, I fixed the problem locally by recompiling, changing port 80 to 
> > > port 84 in io.h; works great, and doesn't conflict with any occupied 
> > > ports.
> >
> > Might not give you a "proper" delay though. 0xed should be a better 
> > choice...
> I don't think there is any magic here.

Golly, you don't think so? Just commenting on his local hack. Port 0x84 is 
inside the (reserved) DMA page register range and stands a better chance of 
not being echoed onto ISA by various chipsets than 0xed does due to that.

Yes -- on a sane machine it's all useless anyway and with all sane machines 
this discussion would've ended quite some time ago already. It's the insane, 
obsolete legacy junk that's the problem.

Rene.
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