On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:18:11 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

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> Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > 
> > I'm speaking specifically in terms of 64-bit platforms here.
> > Shouldn't we unconditionally drop outb_p doing extra port I/O on
> > 64-bit architectures?  Especially considering they don't even have
> > an ISA bus where the decode timing could even matter?
> > 
> 
> Why should the bitsize of the CPU matter for this?  It seems one of
> the less meaningful keys for this.

Well, anything that runs x86_64 should be a fairly modern system.
 
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> Second, as I have mentioned, I don't believe this is really the case, 
> especially not for the PIT, which is still present -- the PIT 
> *semantics* has explicit timing constraints.
> 
> Third, you still have ISA devices, they're just called LPC or PC104 
> devices these days.

Or PCMCIA.  I'm still a happy user of a Zyxel ZyAIR 100B, it's one of
the most stable cards Wifi I've got running under Linux.   :-)

  /Christer
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