Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:03:03 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: IDE? |
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On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 01:52:18AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > We'll need PIO for control commands anyways, but the thing is that we > > won't need to speed optimize PIO and will be able to kill multi-sector > > PIO completely probably. > > Well, I'll probably be maintaining multi-sector PIO externally to the > main kernel in that case. 95% of ARM machines have either PIO only or > in the case of those that do have PCI DMA support (netwinders) the > southbridge is soo messed up that DMA is useless on most boxes produced. > > Multi-sector PIO is a fundamental requirement that I require.
Good to know that.
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