Re: DMA on the SC2200 Geode

[Christer Weinigel]

John Allen  writes:
> I just noticed that the harddrive on my Geode sc2200 system is running
> in pio mode.  What do I need to do to turn on dma support for this
> chip?

You need support for the SC2200 DMA engine in your Linux kernel.
Download a recent 2.5 kernel or Alan Cox' linux-2.2.20-ac2 kernel and
turn on:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SC1200

I don't know how well it works though, I just got back after christmas
and haven't had time to test it out yet.

/Christer