Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 9/22/05, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/22/05, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > > If you've ever tried to venti format a 20GB disk you'd know why it
> > > sucks to deal with.
> >
> > If you turn DMA on, formatting the 20GB disk
> > will be a lot faster.  (All the time is spent zeroing
> > the disk.)
> >
>
> If someone adds DMA support for NForce2 based motherboards I'll gladly
> do that :).

here's what Plan 9 [or some stage of the bootloader] tells me about my
crappy motherboard.

ELCR: 08A8
apm ax=f000 cx=f000 dx=fdf9 di=0 ebx=7e3c esi=414
dev A0 port 1F0 config 427A capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F
dev B0 port 1F0 config 427A capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F
dev A0 port 170 config 427A capabilities 2F00 mwdma 0007 udma 203F
dev B0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0B00 mwdma 0007 udma 0407
pcirouting: South Bridge 10DE, 01E0 not found
ether#0: elnk3: port 0xD000 irq 11: 0026540bd156

Then the plan9.ini file is loaded... so I guess this isn't the kernel
proper but some kind of pre-scan during boot to tell the kernel what
it can figure out about my machine.

Dave