diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 971855f75..f7632993f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 2003-01-25  Jochen Eisinger <jochen.eisinger@gmx.de>
 
 	* sanei/sanei_pa4s2.c: added some #ifdefs to make it compile with
-	  the Intel C++ Compiler (icc). The icc cannot expand assembler
-	  inline macros (at least not with -ip)
+	  the Intel C++ Compiler (icc).
 	* backend/mustek_pp.c: fixed some character encoding issues in
 	  debug messages
+	* README.linux: added a note about the Intel C++ Compiler
 	  
 2003-01-24  Jochen Eisinger <jochen.eisinger@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/README.linux b/README.linux
index c508f81ae..6646a43a1 100644
--- a/README.linux
+++ b/README.linux
@@ -85,3 +85,17 @@ Excessive warnings "pointer of type `void *' used in arithmetic":
 
 If you use DEC cc on Linux Alpha, you may need to set LDFLAGS="-N" to
   be able to build sane-backends.
+
+The Intel C++ Compiler for IA32 and IA64 isn't supported yet. If you want
+  to try nevertheless, you will experience undefined references to inb
+  and outb functions. To avoid those replace #include <sys/io.h> with
+
+  #if defined(__ICC) && __ICC >= 700
+  # define __GNUC__ 2
+  #endif
+  #include <sys/io.h>
+  #if defined(__ICC) && __ICC >= 700
+  # undef __GNUC__
+  #elif defined(__ICC) && defined(HAVE_ASM_IO_H)
+  # include <asm/io.h>
+  #endif