linux-kernel - Re: What pokes the ISA IO port of 0x211 ?

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Message-ID: <e2e108260804210851j5cd86901r37f65190fac8a024@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:51:01 +0200
From:	"Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@...il.com>
To:	"Frantisek Rysanek" <Frantisek.Rysanek@...t.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What pokes the ISA IO port of 0x211 ?

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Frantisek Rysanek
<Frantisek.Rysanek@...t.cz> wrote:
>  I'm dealing with an embedded PC motherboard that contains some custom
>  circuitry (GPIO), accessible via an ISA IO range between 0x200 and
>  0x218.
>
>  There's an interesting issue with this in recent Linux (tried
>  2.6.22.6 and 2.6.24.2): something probes IO port 0x211 on boot, which
>  happens to be an add-on buzzer control port - effectively the kernel
>  boot launches an accoustic alarm :-)
>
>  Any ideas what this could be?

Did you already have a look at /proc/ioports ? This file should
contain every range of ISA bus address in use by any kernel component.

Bart.
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