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Message-ID: <47BC5EE3.5090101@keyaccess.nl>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:09:55 +0100
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...access.nl>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@...d.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@...ritech.net>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use explicit timing delay for pit accesses in kernel
and pcspkr driver
On 20-02-08 18:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rene Herman wrote:
>>
>> _Something_ like this would seem to be the only remaining option. It
>> seems fairly unuseful to #ifdef around that switch statement for
>> kernels without support for the earlier families, but if you insist...
>>
>
> "Only remaining option" other than the one we've had all along. Even on
> the one idiotic set of systems which break, it only breaks post-ACPI
> intialization, IIRC.
Linus vetoed the DMI switch.
Rene.
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