Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 on some AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

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Ingo Molnar wrote:

wow, cool fix! (I remember that there were other systems as well that are affected by port 0x80 muckery - i thought we had removed port 0x80 accesses long ago.)

how about the simpler fix below, as a first-level approach? We can then remove the _p in/out sequences after this.


I believe this will suffer from the issue that was raised: this will use udelay() long before loop calibration (and no, we can't just "be conservative" since there is no "conservative" value we can use.)

Worse, I suspect that at least the PIT, which may need to be used for udelay calibration, is one of the devices that may be affected. I have seen the Verilog for a contemporary chipset, and it can only access the PIT once per microsecond -- this actually has to do with the definition of the PIT; some of the PIT operations are ill-defined if allowed at a higher frequency than the PIT clock.

	-hpa
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