Re: [PATCH] IDE BIOS timings, autotune cleanup

From: Torben Mathiasen (torben.mathiasen@hp.com)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 06:15:11 EST


On Sat, Nov 02 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 00:02, Torben Mathiasen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The attached patch cleans up the 'autotune' concept used in the current 2.4
> > IDE driver. It also adds support for using pure BIOS IDE timings with DMA/PIO.
> > On some systems the BIOS has a far better overview on how things are connected
> > (some chipsets don't support >ata66 speed detection, etc).
> >
>
> Interesting idea. However you are working on whats effectively a dead
> codebase.

Oh :). Let me just port it over to AC and 2.5 for the new IDE layer.

Torben
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