On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:26:08PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote:
> >
> >
> >Subject says all! This evening i will try a patch for the ata driver so
> >maybe all my
> >hardware at home will work again with current when certain patches are
> >applied.
>
> Nice. The newbus architecture introduces overhead in I/O and old chipsets
> (or old compatible modes) do not always support it.
>
> Your drive runs really faster too, doesn't it?
Have you measured the overhead? I think it should be trivial compared to
the effort of using inb/outb to poll a port.
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