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

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To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, David P. Reed <dpreed@...>, Rene Herman <rene.herman@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Paul Rolland <rol@...>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <rol@...>
Date: Tuesday, January 1, 2008 - 8:55 pm

On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:11:54 +0100
Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:


Both 0xed and 0xf0 are mapped to internal functions on the AMD Elan
SC400 processor.  It is an AMD 486 based system on a chip and since AMD
just knew that it would never have a math coprocessor, they reused the
0xf0-0xf2 range for the PCMCIA controller.  I guess the AMD Elan SC500
will have similar problems.

I seem to recall that back when I was working with the Elan SC400
(sometime around 1998?) there were discussions about finding an
alternate delay port because outb to 0x80 messed up the debug port.  I
think the Elan stopped those discussions because just about every port
on the Elan was reused for some alternate purpose.  

  /Christer
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