Subject: Re: No IDE-DMA after sup today ("no driver support")...
To: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 10/21/1998 20:27:43
On Oct 21, Guenther Grau wrote
> Hi Manuel,
> 

Hi,

> I agree with you! However, wouldn't it be possible to to have a
> config option to enable DMA anyways? This would be turned off
> by default. If the user is running NetBSD and wants to try the benefits
> of DMA, he might just try to turn this option on and see what
> happens on his computer. The implications of this option should 
> be clearly marked. Doing this wouldn't impose any limits on the
> users, but I don't know if this is possible with the code you
> wrote.
> 

This is really easy, should be a 3 lines thing (including the ifdef/endif ...
well, 4 if it's defopt'ed :). I'll add it tonigth or tomorow morning.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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