linux-kernel - Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

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Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:31:08 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
CC:	"David P. Reed" <dpreed@...d.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64
 with MCP51 laptops

Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> By the way, David, it would be interesting if you could test 0xed. If 
> your problem is some piece of hardware getting upset at LPC bus aborts 
> it's not going to matter and we'd know an outb delay is just not an 
> option on your system at least. You said you could quickly reproduce the 
> problem with port 0x80?
> 

I tried 0xED for a few versions (1.31-1.37) of SYSLINUX.  It broke on a 
lot of hardware (Phoenix BIOS uses 0xED by default, but BIOSes don't 
have to work on arbitrary hardware.)

	-hpa
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