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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:59:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: john doe <catcowcrow@yahoo.ca>
Subject: Re: ATA port addresses
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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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