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From: john doe <catcowcrow@yahoo.ca>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ATA port addresses
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:59:45 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050430185946.80225.qmail@web60216.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)

Thanks for the advice, its probably as you say to go
through the kernel and drivers.

Thanks again!


--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

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             reply	other threads:[~2005-04-30 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-30 18:59 john doe [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-29 19:06 john doe
2005-04-29 20:13 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-29 15:37 john doe
2005-04-29 20:18 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-29 15:00 john doe
2005-04-29 15:30 ` Alan Cox
2005-04-29 14:57 john doe

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