Re: DMA on the SC2200 Geode

[John Allen]

I don't think we should wait until the kernel loads.  For instance, I 
sometimes load the kernel from the hard drive with BOOT_IDE.  The drive 
and controller should be in dma mode beofre this.  Mainboard setup 
sounds good..
John

Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Bari Ari wrote:
> > Pages 148 - 151, 267 - 272 in the NSC SC2200 data sheet have the
> > Ultra DMA/33 and IDE Controller Register info and settings.
>
> where should we set these? in the mainboard setup? in linux?
>
> ron