> > i dont think this should matter: old systems that truly _need_ the ISA > > delay will be slow enough to not trip up. (nor are they really affected > > by these early delays - the delays were more for crappy ISA devices that > > get initialized later down, when the delay loop is already calibrated) > > 8253 (DMAC) and 8254 (PIT) have been reported in earlier versions of the > thread. By Alan, I believe.
They've been seen to be problems up to PII era machines. I'm not aware of any newer than that with this problem. We also don't need to touch the DMAC that early anyway that I can see - just the PIT. In fact if we have a fast processor we have a TSC and APIC so we don't need the PIT ? Alan -- 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/
