From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 9 7:42:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2007114EDC for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 07:42:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA90420; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:42:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <199912091542.QAA90420@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Breaking DMA support for multiple chipsets? (was: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!) In-Reply-To: <19991209093436.A782@tar.com> from "Richard Seaman Jr." at "Dec 9, 1999 09:34:36 am" To: dick@tar.com (Richard Seaman Jr.) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:42:01 +0100 (CET) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Richard Seaman Jr. wrote: > > > > It already being tested, and it works, but at the same tike I found > > out that the code in the old driver for the sis is schizofrenic, it > > has one way of setting things up, and another way of reporting how > > it is set :(, that way it is difficult to compare results from > > the two drivers.. > > I think the old wd code was broken on reporting. The reporting > was changed from the original submission, when it was committed. Yep, but it does mean that people _belive_ they are running UDMA where in fact they aren't, and now they blaim the ata driver for doing worse :( I'm not sure the other values reported are valid either as they are reported differently from what they are set to.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message