Re: IDE drivers
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Russell Coker wrote:
> On a couple of machines I've found that having IDE drivers built as modules
> (as is done in the Debian kernel binary packages) will result in DMA not
> being usable and performance sucking (3MB/s maximum transfer rate). On the
> same machine using a kernel with the IDE drivers compiled in (with that as
> the only change) DMA was used and transfer rates as high as 30MB/s were
> common.
the modular ide is one of the last Xu patches the debian kernel
carry's around. (modular fb is another one)
> The Fedora kernel binary packages have IDE compiled into the kernel,
> presumably to work around this problem.
>
> I guess that this indicates a bug in the kernel.org source. But while we wait
> for that to be fixed I think that compiling the drivers into the kernel would
> be the right thing to do.
the sarge kernel is frozen.
anyway upstream is working on an improved ide integrated in the new
driver model.
the current hack may then be dropped.
--
maks
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