Re: 2.4.21-pre4: PDC ide driver problems with shared interrupts

Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com)
Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:50:34 -0500 (EST)

> > dual-mb the kernel is already compiled for SMP. It is started with "nosmp"
> > option though. I wanted to mention this not knowing if it is important for the
> > codepath.
>
> Shouldn be an issue. I suppose you don't use fancy stuff like preempt or
> IDE taskfile IO, right ?

IDE taskfile I/O is disabled. Pre-empt and 2.4 IDE don't work together at
all yet, and probably never will (see the /proc code for why its basically
unfixable in 2.4)
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