On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:07:49PM +0700, Darmawan Salihun wrote: > Moreover, direct port I/O was working flawlessly with the older > flashrom that I port to windows back then. I think the "DPC" trick > will guarantee the atomic operation and will give us the level of > confidence to do the direct port I/O.
I am not at all confident about that. Roman did make a good point about IRQL but that does not eliminate the problem, we will still be changing hardware state underneath the OS and that is ALWAYS a bad idea. Please look into: http://www.hollistech.com/Resources/Misc%20articles/getbusdata.htm http://www.freelists.org/archives/wdmaudiodev/03-2004/msg00010.html for Windows 2000 and newer. I do think we should try to support NT 4 as well, and there the Hal API is good, so please don't throw the code away yet. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios