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Message-ID: <a71b7b480709210622l23481221pd09302a827b55eb@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:22:44 +0100
From: "Peter Fordham" <peter.fordham@...il.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: fpu IO port reservation (arch/i386)
Hi,
Does anybody know why we reserve this range of IO ports for 'fpu'?
AFAIK from all the IO maps I can find on the internet for various x86
chipsets only 0x00f0 is actaully ever used.
./arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
282 }, {
283 .name = "fpu",
284 .start = 0x00f0,
285 .end = 0x00ff,
286 .flags = IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOURCE_IO
287 } };
The reason I ask is that I've written a watchdog driver for a Nexcom
MAX6600 server blade type device which has the watchdog control
register at 0xF2. Currently request_region fails due to the fpu
reservation.
regards,
Pete Fordham
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