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Date:      Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:49:03 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: DELAY accuracy Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/usb uhci.c 
Message-ID:  <20020104094446.N18171-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <2971.1010094530@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> If we look at DELAY(1), which is a very common value, considering
> the typical use, I suspect it may actually be specified not for the
> delay as much for various "things to happen", things which might be
> better provoked by memory barriers or similar.
>
> Either way, in i386 I think DELAY(1) would be best implemented as
> 	inb(0x80)

This mistake has been made before.  inb(0x80) is too fast on some machines.

Bruce


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