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SubjectRe: Freeze Upon /dev/fd0 Use
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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