Re: /proc/bus/pci

Michal Jaegermann (michal@harddata.com)
Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:49:25 -0600


On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 06:41:10PM +0200, Julien Oster wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> > A "phb" just makes me go "Whaa?"
>
> But people doing computer stuff *love* abbrevations. Ask any
> non-kernel-developer (or non-kernel-interested) about ACPI, MSI, MSWR,
> MTRR, APIC, IO-APIC, TSC, PTE or XT-PIC-IRQ and he will not only go
> "Whaa?" but "WHAAAAHELP!" :-)

In a message from 2nd of July, here on lkml, Andre Hedrick wrote

<quote>
I need to sit down with JG, AC, BZ, JA and work out a TF <> FIS lib
for First Party DMA.

I need to rip the SATA 1.0 out of drivers/ide/* ...
....

Obviously TCQ in FPDMA via direct FIS will map to SCSI with less
pain.

I have FPDMA cores.
</quote>

In the first moment I started to wonder if this is a spoof; but
after a while I decided that likely it is not. Still a translator
could be handy or it is time to update V.E.R.A. :-)

Michal
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