From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 29 06:54:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA21348 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 06:54:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA21327 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 06:54:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA11002; Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:54:02 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:54:02 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9603291454.AA11002@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Michael Smith Cc: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger), questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Triton EIDE interface support In-Reply-To: <199603282307.JAA18081@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199603282307.JAA18081@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > These have been around since 2.0R AFAIK. -current also has support for the > Triton's busmaster support, but not being an IDE-lover, I've never had > occasion to try it out. Just to make a slight correction here: -current has code which, if the hooks it exports were used by the `wd' driver, would allow the bus-master IDE DMA feature of the Triton chipset to be used. The current `wd' driver does not support this, and nobody has yet spoken up to say that they wanted to write the code. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant