Re: VIA IDE driver, v1.5 (final)

Chris Kloiber (ckloiber@rochester.rr.com)
Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:49:06 -0400

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I think I have a well working and tested (by a bunch of people) version
> of the via IDE tuning driver. I'd suggest integrating it into the
> current kernel. For use w/ UDMA66, it's needed to specify ide0=ata66 or
> ide1=ata66 on the kernel command line.
>
> See it attached.
>
> --
> Vojtech Pavlik
> SuSE Labs

I have a general question, not meaning to be specific to you or your
driver.
With my current 2.2.x kernel, the only kernel command line (LILO) is
mem=256M and that is only because for some reason linux only sees 64
megs on my motherboard (FIC SD11). I have tried a few of the 2.4.x-test
series kernels and have found the number of LILO parameters to have
increased to the point where they will not all get processed- the input
line is truncated. Why is everyone requiring LILO parameters instead of
using reasonable (or customizable elsewhere) defaults? Wont this trend
make installing more difficult instead of less?

Chris Kloiber

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