> In any case, my machine does not have an ISA bus. Why should it? It's > a laptop!
Yes it does. The branding spec said "No ISA bus" so it was renamed "LPC" and hidden internally, but its alive and well. > has already serviced the bus and delivered data! Why put many > microseconds into the bus, locking out other ISA transactions (and PCI > maybe too) with an out to port 80? Historically processors didn't have a high precision time source so it was the normal way to do it on all PC operating systems > Some of the code in linux is really nice, really clean, really > well-thought out. Some is ... well, I'm not trolling for a fight. Like all things, it doesn't always age well 8) -- 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/
