On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > There ought to be _some_ initializations that don't require interrupts?
> > Registering the file systems and network protocols, stuff like that?
>
> Give up on IDE, it is too broken.
Yeah S- Can the whole thing and 90% of all users of Linux??
> You should get away with paralelising USB and SCSI scan.
Go read the rules of detection in the ATA Standard.
> Perhaps you can speed boot up with initrd+modules, possibly improving module
> inits (but they are probably good enough). With modules, I can imagine
> USB+SCSI scans running in paralel.
It does not work that way.
As a SuSEman you know better than to comment on things that you have no
clue about...
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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