On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, John Allen wrote:

> You raise a good point.  We would have to determine if the drives
> support the dma mode we want.  I have done a little experimentation and
> found that it is probably best to let the kernel handle the dma setup.  
> After all, having LinuxBIOS do the minimal initialization is the goal of
> LinuxBIOS.

Well I am glad to hear you say this, as I did not like the idea of putting 
all that DMA support into linuxbios -- the kernel can always do a better 
job of configuring IDE, I think.

ron

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