Re: The floppy driver and its DMA allocation problems

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:37:45 +0000 (GMT)

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> The patch at the end of the mail switches the floppy driver in DMA
> less mode on boxes with more than 16 MB of memory.

This seems less than ideal. Firstly it could check the floppy controller
type before deciding, secondly trying the DMA allocation then flipping to
nodma if it cant get it gives performance most of the time

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