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Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Quentin,
> 
>>>> Is this important?
>>> I don't think so - we already set DMA on by default. sudo hdparm 
>>> /dev/hda (or other drive device name) should confirm this.
>> That's the thing...  This is a kernel I built myself to enable the 
>> stable firewire stack for amd64.  The rt13 kernel.  I cannot find the 
>> setting for enabling DMA ;-)
> 
> I think it's probably redundant now, the IDE stack in recent kernels may 
> have done away with the option. It's hard to imagine why you wouldn't 
> want DMA enabled.
> 
I do not have any PATA drives any more, but here are all the DMA options
in my .config:

$ grep DMA .config
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA=y
CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DMA_API_DEBUG=y
# CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT is not set
CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG=1
# CONFIG_DMAR is not set
CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y
CONFIG_SCSI_DMA=y
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_DMA_ADDRESSING_MODE=1
CONFIG_PDC_ADMA=m
# CONFIG_PATA_HPT3X3_DMA is not set
# CONFIG_PATA_OPTIDMA is not set
# CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA is not set
CONFIG_I2O_EXT_ADAPTEC_DMA64=y
CONFIG_B43LEGACY_DMA=y
CONFIG_B43LEGACY_DMA_AND_PIO_MODE=y
# CONFIG_B43LEGACY_DMA_MODE is not set
CONFIG_CARDMAN_4000=m
CONFIG_CARDMAN_4040=m
CONFIG_VIDEOBUF_DMA_SG=m
CONFIG_DMADEVICES=y
# DMA Devices
CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=m
CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE=y
# DMA Clients
CONFIG_NET_DMA=y
# CONFIG_DMATEST is not set
# CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set
# CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_HAS_DMA=y

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