Re: [PATCH 1/2] sp5100_tco: Fix wrong indirect I/O access for getting value of reserved bits

[Wim Van Sebroeck]

Hi,

> In case of SB800 or later chipset and re-programming MMIO address(*),
> sp5100_tco module may read incorrect value of reserved bit, because the module
> reads a value from an incorrect I/O address. However, this bug doesn't cause
> a problem, because when re-programming MMIO address, by chance the module
> writes zero (this is BIOS's default value) to the low three bits of register.
> * In most cases, PC with SB8x0 or later chipset doesn't need to re-programming
>   MMIO address, because such PC can enable AcpiMmio and can use 0xfed80b00 for
>   watchdog register base address.
> 
> This patch fixes this bug.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43176
> Signed-off-by: Takahisa Tanaka <mc74hc00@xxxxxxxxx>

Added to linux-watchdog-next.

Kind regards,
Wim.

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