> Almost all of the issues in Linux where _p operations are used are (or
> should be) historical - IMO.
>
> Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 02:38:15 David P. Reed wrote:
> >> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>> And shoot the designer of this particular microcontroller firmware.
> >>
> >> Well, some days I want to shoot the "designer" of the entire Wintel
> >> architecture... it's not exactly "designed" by anybody of course, and
> >> today it's created largely by a collection of Taiwanese and Chinese ODM
> >> firms, coupled with Microsoft WinHEC and Intel folks. At least they
> >> follow the rules and their ACPI and BIOS code say that they are using
> >> port 80 very clearly if you use PnP and ACPI properly. And in the old
> >> days, you were "supposed" to use the system BIOS to talk to things like
> >> the PIT that had timing issues, not write your own code.
> >
> > Does anyone know what port does Windows use? I'm pretty sure that it
> > isn't 80h as I run Windows 98 often with port 80h debug card inserted.
> > The last POST code set by BIOS usually remains on the display and only
> > changes when BIOS does something like suspend/resume. IIRC, there was a
> > program that was able to display temperature from onboard sensors on the
> > port 80h display that's integrated on some mainboards.
>
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