Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata? | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 10:37:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> IIRC it's used to access non-Atari IDE disks on Atari (which has a byte-swapped > IDE interface) and vice-versa. > > So yes, you can use it on SMP machines, to access disks that were used before > on Atari.
For 2.5 would it perhaps be cleaner if we had a bswapping loop device. Sort of very bad crypto mode ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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