Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@...>, Christer Weinigel <christer@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>, David P. Reed <dpreed@...>, Paul Rolland <rol@...>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>, <rol@...>
If the ISA bus is below 8 MHz, we might need a longer delay. If we default
to the longer delay, the delay will be too long for more than 99,99 % of
all systems, not counting i586+. Especially if the driver is fine-tuned to
give maximum throughput, this may be bad.
OTOH, the DOS drivers I heared about use delays and would break on
underclocked ISA busses if the n * ISA_HZ delay was needed. Maybe
somebody having a configurable ISA bus speed and some problematic
chips can test it ...
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