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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 18:11:10 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DMA for IDE drives ?
Message-ID:  <199705210841.SAA11179@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199705210700.JAA07522@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "May 21, 97 09:00:12 am"

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Luigi Rizzo stands accused of saying:
> 
> one thing I have been long wondering about is whether it is possible to
> add DMA support for IDE devices. I think many controllers now have this
> capability, maybe some even implement it right... so, are the docs
> available somewhere to try and implement DMA mode ?

DMA support for at least the Intel Triton chipset was added some time 
back, but never integrated with the 'wd' driver.  IIRC, DavidG did it.

> Luigi Rizzo                  |  Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione

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