Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:38:14 +0200 | From | Thomas Sailer <> | Subject | Re: Freeze Upon /dev/fd0 Use |
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The good news is that ISA DMA is broken anyway, and it might just be an > acceptable option to not even have a "BROKEN_DMA" config option, but > just unconditionally refusing to allow two concurrent ISA DMA streams. > The only things I know of that do ISA DMA is the floppy and old sound > cards, and if that means that the sound skips while accessing the floppy > I don't know if we really need to worry too much..
And soundmodem. I never had any problems accessing a floppy when soundmodem ran, at least under 2.0.x (haven't tried this lately with 2.1), so please don't do that unconditionally... (make it a white list thing please...)
Tom
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