Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:52:08 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Worrisome IDE PIO transfers... |
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Sunday 29 of February 2004 01:58, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > I like Alan's idea to use loopback instead of "bswap". > > > > Neat but no more zerocopy that way. I much prefer a swap-as-you-go... > > Okay, better solution: > > - on Atari/Q40: > if drive->bswap use insw/outsw instead of swapping variants
Yep, that sounds the most logical. Richard?
> - on others: > use device mapper as suggested by Matt Mackall > (no extra copying and you can use DMA to read disk from TiVo!)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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