[H-GEN] New Machine (UDMA support)

[Rob Kearey]

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Daniel Quinlan wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:54:45PM +1000, Frank Brand wrote:

> > However, in many cases the OBSERVABLE difference in performance between a $185
> > Celeron 466 and a $500 Athlon 500 will be very, very little...especially in
> > systems such as Linux without the full high speed UDMA support, video support,
> > high speed RAM etc. etc.

> I was wondering about that. is UDMA support in the pipeline?

Yep. Check out www.kernelnotes.org for all the goss. UDMA/66 is
definitely in 2.3 and it may already be backported to 2.2, though I
haven't checked.

> Daniel Quinlan                          daniel at netwise.net.au

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