DMA on the SC2200 Geode
Ronald G. Minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Jan 6 20:57:36 CET 2003
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, John Allen wrote:
> You raise a good point. We would have to determine if the drives
> support the dma mode we want. I have done a little experimentation and
> found that it is probably best to let the kernel handle the dma setup.
> After all, having LinuxBIOS do the minimal initialization is the goal of
> LinuxBIOS.
Well I am glad to hear you say this, as I did not like the idea of putting
all that DMA support into linuxbios -- the kernel can always do a better
job of configuring IDE, I think.
ron
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