Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix problems due to use of "outb" to port 80 onsome AMD64x2 laptops, etc.

[Robert Hancock]

David P. Reed wrote:
> PS: If I have time, I may try to build Rene's port 80 test for Windows 
> and run it under WinXP on this machine (I still have a crappy little 
> partition that boots it).   If it freezes the same way, it's almost 
> certain a design "feature", and if it doesn't freeze, we might suspect 
> that there is compensating logic in either Windows ACPI code or some way 
> that windows "sets up" the machine.

You'd have to replace the iopl call to an equivalent one for Windows 
(seems like NtSetInformationProcess(ProcessUserModeIOPL) might do what 
you need).

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