[LinuxBIOS] filo ide speedup patch!

Corey Osgood corey_osgood at verizon.net
Fri Apr 6 21:27:52 CEST 2007


Tom Sylla wrote:
> IDE UDMA is always going to be faster than PIO. If your intent is only 
> to speed up CF, then it doesn't really matter, UDMA and MDMA CFs are 
> still pretty rare. If you want to make all filo loads faster, you may 
> want to look into IDE DMA. It really isn't much harder to program than 
> IDE PIO.

I've been following this thread...DMA might not be much harder to
program, but it's not supported by some compact flash cards and/or the
IDE adapters some of us use. FILO needs to have some sort of PIO mode
capability ;)

-Corey




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