Re: SMP "inb_p" hangs -> huh?

From: Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 01:49:13 EST


On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Valentijn Sessink wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> while trying to track down a strange freeze, I found that the main
> reason for the immediate hang is a never returning inb(...) instruction
> from ide.c:

The macros used to slow down I/O write to the "MFG" port at 0x80.
If your board is "strange", (bad decode), this might screw up something.
You might have a broken trace on the motherboard.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).

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