Re: New true IDE compact flash driver starting point?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 13:29:32 EST


> 1) Since this is for a quasi realtime application, is there any
> advantage to using the interrupt line regarding how the CPU spends its
> idle time waiting for the flash? (I have an interrupt line I can use.)
> Currently I am not sending in the IRQ resource, resource array length of
> 2, not 3.

For real time you may actually be better with the IRQless polling
behaviour as the driver and ATA library currently stands.
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