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

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On 15-12-07 09:08, Paul Rolland wrote:
Hello,

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:29:55 +0000
Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:13:46 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> wrote:

Pavel Machek wrote:
On Fri 2007-12-14 10:02:57, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
How long will that take to boot on a 386?
Well the dumb approach to fix that would seem to be to initialise it to

	cpu->family   3 -> 50MHz 4 -> 300Mhz 5-> etc...

Just an idea : from what I've read, the problem (port 80 hanging) only occurs
on 'modern' machines... So why not :
 - use port 80 for old CPUs (PII, PIII) where it has never really been
   a problem,
 - use the cpu->family to do a best match for CPU freq
thus we could avoid increasing boot time too much...

Yes, just posted a Patch-For-Comments that switches on the availability of a TSC (tsc_init sets tsc_disable also for !cpu_has_tsc) which would mean that only really old stuff would be using the outb still. A TSC is really all we need to have a sensible udelay().

Rene.
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