Re: Problem Setting DMA
On Thursday 28 April 2005 14:37, Thomas H. George wrote:
> If the kernel does not support this IDE controller, what next? A new
> motherboard?
There are a few options.
You could first of all see if support is in progress, or being planned. If it
is, you can forget about DMA for a while until it's ready. DMA is nice for
performance, but it's not crucial.
Otherwise, you can beg someone or pay someone to develop a driver, or learn
the right stuff and do it yourself. Someone might be willing to do it for
free if only they have access to a similar board. If you're considering
buying a new one, you could instead by the same one for a kernel developer,
and thereby enhance linux, and help others with the same board.
--
Lee.
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