> If the hardware required an intermediate junk I/O, that would be a > reason to do one, but it doesn't, does it? It requires a delay. It's > written thus in all of the application notes.
And the only instruction that is synchronized to the bus in question is an I/O instruction. > Wrong again. Of course one knows how long the delay should be. The bus > speed is known. Wrong again. ISA bus speed is neither defined precisely, nor visible in a system portable fashion. I'm so glad you have nothing better to do than troll, if you actually wrote code I'd be worried it might get into something people used. 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/