Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:51:04 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: driver initialization pipelining |
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi! > > > There ought to be _some_ initializations that don't require interrupts? > > Registering the file systems and network protocols, stuff like that? > > Give up on IDE, it is too broken.
Yeah S- Can the whole thing and 90% of all users of Linux??
> You should get away with paralelising USB and SCSI scan.
Go read the rules of detection in the ATA Standard.
> Perhaps you can speed boot up with initrd+modules, possibly improving module > inits (but they are probably good enough). With modules, I can imagine > USB+SCSI scans running in paralel.
It does not work that way. As a SuSEman you know better than to comment on things that you have no clue about...
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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