From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e605092207384c27db9b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:38:41 -0700 From: David Leimbach To: Russ Cox Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil shutdown In-Reply-To: <3e1162e605092207236f41dcf5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <3e1162e605092207157e3e0f9f@mail.gmail.com> <3e1162e605092207236f41dcf5@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8f1e0902-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 9/22/05, David Leimbach wrote: > On 9/22/05, Russ Cox 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=3Df000 cx=3Df000 dx=3Dfdf9 di=3D0 ebx=3D7e3c esi=3D414 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