Re: [PATCH] ACPICA: delete check for AML access to port 0x81-83

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On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:56:09PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> From: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Sony laptops apparently write 4-bytes (rather than 1 byte)
> to debug port 0x80, which spews error messages:

So admittedly I should just check the spec here instead, but: what does 
a 4 byte write to an io port mean? It seems a bit odd that Sonys could 
be scribbling over DMA1 without causing any problems. Is Windows turning 
this into a single byte write to the defined io port instead?

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