From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 16:56:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.noos.fr (verlaine.noos.net [212.198.2.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D16037B424 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:56:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clefevre@poboxes.com) Received: (qmail 5459284 invoked by uid 0); 10 Apr 2001 23:56:36 -0000 Received: from d165.dhcp212-198-231.noos.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.165]) (envelope-sender ) by verlaine.noos.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 10 Apr 2001 23:56:36 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3ANuZw43187; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:56:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from clefevre@poboxes.com) To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: simond@irrelevant.org, Michael Nottebrock , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone? References: <02db01c0c1b1$c1a0ffe0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> <20010410123317.A73359@irrelevant.org> <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre In-Reply-To: <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Cyrille Lefevre Date: 11 Apr 2001 01:56:34 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Bruce A. Mah" writes: > > It seems that they've been moved, the new ata(4) explains how to set them > > (ie from the loader) > > And it's also mentioned in RELNOTES.TXT: > > # To provide more flexible configuration, the various options for the > # ata(4) driver are now boot loader tunables, rather than kernel > # configure-time options. the ata(4) manual page isn't clear about the difference between hw.ata.ata_dma (where ata-disk.c says ATA disk DMA mode control) and hw.ata.atapi_dma (where atapi-all.c says ATAPI device DMA mode control) ? well, humm! also, what is the purpose of the (last) descr field in SYSCTL_* macros. is there any way to obtain the description of such sysctl from the user land ? Cyrille. -- home: mailto:clefevre@poboxes.com UNIX is user-friendly; it's just particular work: mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@edf.fr about who it chooses to be friends with. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message