Re: [PATCH v1 01/14] x86/realmode: remove I/O port paravirtualization

From: Borislav Petkov

Date: Wed Jan 28 2026 - 12:25:28 EST


On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 11:53:53AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> In commit:
>
> eb4ea1ae8f45 x86/boot: Port I/O: Allow to hook up alternative helpers

We do this format for referencing commits:

eb4ea1ae8f45 ("x86/boot: Port I/O: Allow to hook up alternative helpers")

> ... paravirtualization hooks were added to (some!) of the port I/O
> functions. However, they were only ever used in the 32/64-bit
> "compressed" directory, and never made any sense in the real-mode
> code, which is notoriously size sensitive.
>
> Without these hooks, <asm/shared/io.h> is usable directly, so mode

s/mode/move/

Otherwise, LGTM.

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