linux-kernel - Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:51:41 +0100 (CET)
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Ondrej Zary <linux@...nbow-software.org>
cc:	"David P. Reed" <dpreed@...d.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>,
	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Paul Rolland <rol@...917.net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	rol@...be.net
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80
 I/O delay override.

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008 18:24:02 David P. Reed wrote:

> > Windows these days does delays with timing loops or the scheduler.  It
> > doesn't use a "port".  Also, Windows XP only supports machines that tend
> > not to have timing problems that use delays.  Instead, if a device takes
> > a while to respond, it has a "busy bit" in some port or memory slot that
> > can be tested.
> 
> Windows XP can run on a machine with ISA slot(s) and has built-in drivers for 
> some plug&play ISA cards - e.g. the famous 3Com EtherLink III. I think that 
> there's a driver for NE2000-compatible cards too and it probably works.

The NE2K-driver went missing in W2K. BTDT.
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