On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:45:25 +0100
Rene Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07-12-07 18:19, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:31:16 +0100
> > Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>> You don't need to. Port 0x80 historically is about 8uS so just udelay(8)
> >>> and make sure the initial default delay is conservative enough before the
> >> How would you make it conservative enough handling let's say a 6Ghz CPU
> >> that can execute multiple jumps per cycle?
> >
> > Pick a sane worst case and go with it at boot. We don't have to be
> > accurate before we tune udelay - over long in uSecs isnt going to hurt,
> > and most post boot _p's can be replaced by udelay(8) now
>
> Isn't 8 generally a bit overly long? I believe the norm is 1?
8uS is an ISA bus transaction.
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