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.
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