From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262958AbVD2UVx (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:21:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262942AbVD2UUf (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:20:35 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:60377 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262919AbVD2UT0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:19:26 -0400 Subject: Re: ATA port addresses From: Alan Cox To: john doe Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20050429153738.78730.qmail@web60214.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050429153738.78730.qmail@web60214.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1114805887.24687.300.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:18:11 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Gwe, 2005-04-29 at 16:37, john doe wrote: > Thank you for the prompt reply! > > I'll look at this option closer. Is there a way to > bypass the IDE driver though? Write your own kernel 8) There isn't really a way to bypass it and since you rely on the kernel for functionality like mmap you rely on it for trust anyway. More pressingly you need DMA functionality for some hardware and the newer devices are all getting very clever and sometimes very unique in their interfacing