Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override

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On 30-12-07 17:07, Ingo Molnar wrote:

* Rene Herman <[email protected]> wrote:

On 30-12-07 16:28, Ingo Molnar wrote:

hardware. (which makes it a perfect delay register in any case)

Hardly. Duron 1300 on AMD756:

but that does not matter at all: that's not '90s era hardware that we are (slightly) worried about wrt. IO delays in misc_32.c. (i.e. on _real_ ISA systems)

Real ISA systems will also generally respond faster to it than the unused port (this thing actually has an ISA bus but not VGA on it ofcourse) which means that "a perfect delay register" it is not. But yes, I have an actual Am386DX-40 with ISA VGA up and running which also doesn't care either way, about the ones in misc_32.c or anywhere else for that matter.

Me myself never having seen anything actually care since using that machine actively was in fact the reason I got involved so don't get me wrong; doing away with 0x80 use would be quite sensible. It's just that various machines that _do_ need it (and which were reported to exist) are by now gathering dust in basements and will not timely respond/test this. Which, again, also means their possible regression might not be considered all that regressive but still; if x86 should support anything under the sun still it's a sensible worry.

Rene.
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