From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk
Organization: University of Edinburgh
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 ide-cd DMA ripping
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:26:21 +0000
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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:37, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2.6 still uses PIO for CDROMREADAUDIO cdda ripping, which is less than
> optimal of course... This patch uses the block layer infrastructure to
> enable zero copy DMA ripping through CDROMREADAUDIO.
>
> I'd appreciate people giving this a test spin. Patch is against
> 2.6.4-rc1 (well current BK, actually).
>
[snip] 

Is this a general optimisation, i.e. will the rip methods used by cdda2wav and 
cdparanoia, etc. be optimised, or do you need some specific userspace tools 
to utilise it?

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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