Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:44:44 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] IDE clean 12 3rd attempt |
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Hi!
> >Pity - noncompressed is better, now only people with too much time > >will look at it. > > > >There is something else one might do. > >In ide-geometry.c there is the routine probe_cmos_for_drives(). > >Long ago I already wrote "Eventually the entire routine below > >should be removed". I think this is the proper time to do this. > > > >This probe is done only for the i386 architecture, and only > >for the first two IDE disks, and only influences their geometry. > >It has been a pain - for example, it gives the first two disks > >a different geometry from the others, which is inconvenient > >when one want a RAID of identical disks. > > > Basically I lend toward your arguments. I think too that a bios based > detection is already right and then we have now the ide-skip kernel > parameter which is allowing to exclude a drive from handling by the > linux ide driver anyway. And I think that 2.4.x and above don't run on > i386's anymore anyway.
I sure hope they do.
I run 2.4.x on 486sx, which is .... pretty close to 386. 386 support is not going to get dropped anytime soon... Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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