From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 30 20:34:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02478 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:34:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from room101.sysc.com (qmailr@richmojm2.student.rose-hulman.edu [137.112.206.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA02470 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jayrich@room101.sysc.com) Received: (qmail 8034 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Dec 1997 04:34:12 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 23:34:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Jay M. Richmond" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ide bus mastering In-Reply-To: <199711302335.BAA26546@shadows.aeon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, mika ruohotie wrote: > > On the other hand, I don't know of any cases where the DMA driver messed > > up either, so perhaps we could all get together and make a decision as to > > whether it is "good" enough to go into -stable yet. > > 1. i dont like wd34000, the drive i had acted strangely few times > 2. i was running on 83MHz bus speed, i never slow that down > 3. i was running filesystems async,noatime I doubt that was due to the bus mastering driver too. Perhaps this could work a lkm and -stable users could "test" it, maybe even make it a kernel option or something, before it becomes part of the branch. Would someone be willing to do this? I would but I don't have the knowledge. Doug mentioned something about a patch to support bus mastering was already available for -stable, and that it was easy to find. Maybe I'm just blind, but does anyone know where this patch is located? Thanks for your time, Jay jayrich@sysc.com