Re: What pokes the ISA IO port of 0x211 ?

[Rene Herman]

On 21-04-08 22:05, Rene Herman wrote:

> On 21-04-08 13:12, Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
> > Dear Everyone,
> >
> > I'm dealing with an embedded PC motherboard that contains some custom 
> > circuitry (GPIO), accessible via an ISA IO range between 0x200 and 
> > 0x218. 
> > There's an interesting issue with this in recent Linux (tried 2.6.22.6 
> > and 2.6.24.2): something probes IO port 0x211 on boot, which happens 
> > to be an add-on buzzer control port - effectively the kernel boot 
> > launches an accoustic alarm :-) 
> > Any ideas what this could be? 
>
> ISAPnP default read data port is close at 0x213...
>
> I haven't checked but this also reminds me of sensor chips. Do you have 
> sensor drivers builtin?

Ah, it's the old analog gameport: ns558_init.

Rene.
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