Re: VIA, 32bit PIO and 2.5.x kernel

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:38:49 +0100 (BST)


> > The global "wheee I'm a poor and can't afford 32 bit IO" option will remain
> > there of course.
> >
> > So we have no issue here. OK?

What if the user doesn't know the precise innards of their hardware. IDE
more than anything else has to automagically do the right thing. Given the
size of the PIO transfer loop and the way for some boards its weirdly
dependant on hardware magic and wonder is there any reason for not just
making the host controller provide the function or reference an ide library
function for "sane" hardware ?
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