Re: [PATCH] x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:39:02 +0100 (CET)
> > Actually there were, and I sent numerous people patches for that back in
> > ISA days. 
> 
> Are you talking about VGA cards requiring a delay between outb index/outb 
> data, VGA cards barfing on outw or systems barfing on outb(0x80,42)?

VGA cards barfing on outw - on some trident at least it would cause weird
display messups when scrolling the text console that went right the next
scroll.
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