From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata?
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:40:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C40BB5E.8AB0A44F@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16MRjQ-0003Sb-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > IIRC it's used to access non-Atari IDE disks on Atari (which has a byte-swapped
> > IDE interface) and vice-versa.
> >
> > So yes, you can use it on SMP machines, to access disks that were used before
> > on Atari.
>
> For 2.5 would it perhaps be cleaner if we had a bswapping loop device. Sort
> of very bad crypto mode ?
I tried to implement that, but hdx=bswap operates on drives, and loop on
partitions. Do you have another idea? It probably has to wait until the
partition code is further cleaned up.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-12 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-03 22:11 Who uses hdx=bswap or hdx=swapdata? Manfred Spraul
2002-01-03 22:17 ` Cort Dougan
2002-01-03 22:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-03 22:41 ` Russell King
2002-01-04 9:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-01-04 9:31 ` Chris Lawrence
2002-01-04 10:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-04 10:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-01-04 17:15 ` Michael Schmitz
2002-01-04 17:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-01-04 22:51 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-01-04 18:43 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2002-01-12 22:40 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2002-01-13 11:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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