Re: [Xen-devel] Keyboard I/O port reservation

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/7/08 00:01, "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> arch/{i386,x86_64}/kernel/setup*.c reserve ports 0x60 to 0x6f for the
> i8042 keyboard controller.  That critter actually uses just 0x60 and
> 0x64.  Apparently, there's hardware out there (IPMI controller on some
> single board computer) that uses other ports in the reserved range.
> Upstream narrowed the I/O port reservation to make that hardware
> work[*].
> 
> I figure simply aping upstream's change in the two setup-xen.c should
> do for Xen.  Right?

Almost certainly.

> Do we want that in linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?

Happy to have it.

 Thanks,
 Keir

> [*] 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=90
> 96bd7a66efbe406910365c5206a32eed3875af
> 
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