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From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Worrisome IDE PIO transfers...
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:23:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040229192320.GA20299@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0402290950590.7483@waterleaf.sonytel.be>

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:52:08AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 of February 2004 01:58, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > > I like Alan's idea to use loopback instead of "bswap".
> > >
> > > Neat but no more zerocopy that way.  I much prefer a swap-as-you-go...
> >
> > Okay, better solution:
> >
> > - on Atari/Q40:
> >   if drive->bswap use insw/outsw instead of swapping variants
> 
> Yep, that sounds the most logical. Richard?

looks good. 

However it appears to fix only part of the problem -  we need some
logic to ensure only disk data is swapped.
Bswapping WIN_DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE data would not be very
clever I guess.

Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-29 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-28 23:24 Worrisome IDE PIO transfers Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29  0:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-29  0:58   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29  3:05     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-29  8:52       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-29 19:23         ` Richard Zidlicky [this message]
2004-02-29 20:36           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-01 10:43             ` Richard Zidlicky
2004-02-29  1:50   ` Matt Mackall
2004-02-29  2:41     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29  3:08       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-29  9:32         ` Aubin LaBrosse
2004-03-01  0:47       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-01 13:23         ` Christophe Saout
2004-03-01 16:45           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-02-29  8:50   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-29 14:55     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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