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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE BIOS timings, autotune cleanup
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
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On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 00:02, Torben Mathiasen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patch cleans up the 'autotune' concept used in the current 2.4
> IDE driver. It also adds support for using pure BIOS IDE timings with DMA/PIO.
> On some systems the BIOS has a far better overview on how things are connected
> (some chipsets don't support >ata66 speed detection, etc).
> 

Interesting idea. However you are working on whats effectively a dead
codebase.

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