On 17-12-07 03:05, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Incidentally, I had the thought earlier today that port 0xf0 might be a suitable delay port. It is used only by the 387-emulating-a-287 hack for IRQ 13, which Linux doesn't use on 486+.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/port80$ su -c ./port80
cycles: out 2400, in 2400
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/port80$ su -c ./portf0
cycles: out 2400, in 2400

(Duron 1300)

I suppose you mean using it instead of port 0x80 always and not just as an alternate port? For the latter 0xed is alright I guess...


Rene.
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