On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:18:11 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote: > > > > I'm speaking specifically in terms of 64-bit platforms here. > > Shouldn't we unconditionally drop outb_p doing extra port I/O on > > 64-bit architectures? Especially considering they don't even have > > an ISA bus where the decode timing could even matter? > > > > Why should the bitsize of the CPU matter for this? It seems one of > the less meaningful keys for this. Well, anything that runs x86_64 should be a fairly modern system. > Second, as I have mentioned, I don't believe this is really the case, > especially not for the PIT, which is still present -- the PIT > *semantics* has explicit timing constraints. > > Third, you still have ISA devices, they're just called LPC or PC104 > devices these days. Or PCMCIA. I'm still a happy user of a Zyxel ZyAIR 100B, it's one of the most stable cards Wifi I've got running under Linux. :-) /Christer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
