From: "Sander van Dijk" <a.h.vandijk@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] patch for installation in vmware
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:48:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba0d3bc70807190848q4d54d855k98d881200fefe02c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080719134735.0D7E71E8C22@holo.morphisms.net>
On 7/19/08, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>> I think it would be good to place the for-loop
>> in a "if(~ $dmamode yes)" as well.
>
> I don't see the point of that one. If you're running
> vmware, you want dma on, no? Otherwise the disk
> is very slow.
Well, the "use DMA for ide drives[yes]: " question already defaults to
"yes", so by default dma will be on. Currently, when the user answers
"no" to this question in vmware, dma will still be on regardless. I
think it either should be off when the user explicitly requests this,
or the question shouldn't be asked at all (for vmware). However,
aux/vmware is run from termrc before the "use DMA for ide drives[yes]:
" question is asked, so some stuff may have to be moved around if we
want dma to be on or aff according to the user's reply.
Greetings, Sander.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-19 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-18 20:07 Antonin Vecera
2008-07-19 7:30 ` Sander van Dijk
2008-07-19 13:50 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-19 15:48 ` Sander van Dijk [this message]
2008-07-20 8:11 ` Sander van Dijk
2008-07-20 12:55 ` Uriel
2008-07-23 9:43 ` Sander van Dijk
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