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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:59:08 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops
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> I mean, we expect 8usec delay -- historical ISA timing -- but when
> _PCI_ card with leds is inserted, it is likely to be faster than old
> ISA, right?

Yes, i guess switching to udelay at least on newer systems would
be a good idea.  I'm not quite sure about systems without TSC though.

-Andi