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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:15:11 +0100
From: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Torben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IDE BIOS timings, autotune cleanup
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On Sat, Nov 02 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

Oh :). Let me just port it over to AC and 2.5 for the new IDE layer. 

Torben
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