Re: IDE?

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 18 Aug 2002 01:52:18 +0100

On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 11:59:42PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> We'll need PIO for control commands anyways, but the thing is that we
> won't need to speed optimize PIO and will be able to kill multi-sector
> PIO completely probably.

Well, I'll probably be maintaining multi-sector PIO externally to the
main kernel in that case. 95% of ARM machines have either PIO only or
in the case of those that do have PCI DMA support (netwinders) the
southbridge is soo messed up that DMA is useless on most boxes produced.

Multi-sector PIO is a fundamental requirement that I require.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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