Kernel config

Ralph Siemsen ralphs at netwinder.org
Wed Apr 13 08:13:03 EDT 2005


François Jacques wrote:

> CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
> AFAIK, each device on the NetWinder uses a different IRQ, is this really
> required?

Agreed... "should" not make any difference.

> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y
> This is gone in 2.4.27...any ideas why it was set?

Can't remember ;(

> (BTW, an interesting find:
> 
>  CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
>  CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
>  Ha-ah! Looks like it will autotune the drives to use DMA on bootup, so its
>  probably working with 2.4.19... 
> )

Yes, and in addition, nettrom passes ide0=autotune on the kernel command 
line, if my memory serves correctly.

-R



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