Date: 11 Apr 2001 01:56:34 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre-lists@noos.fr> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: simond@irrelevant.org, Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone? Message-ID: <zodo2tsd.fsf@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> References: <02db01c0c1b1$c1a0ffe0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> <20010410123317.A73359@irrelevant.org> <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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