Re: Floppy detection probems with 6.2



On Wednesday 18 April 2007 00:43, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: I am trying to find out more information about what memory is being used,
: etc.. Does anyone have a suggestion how I can do this?

Maybe we've come to the point in time that we need to do PIO for
floppies when we can't allocate enough memory for their DMA at boot.

That'd be a nice fall back but it surely it can't be too hard to reserve some
memory for stuff like this?

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