IDE driver in polling mode
Mark Lord
liml at rtr.ca
Wed Apr 11 00:44:11 EST 2007
> Michael wrote:
>
>> I'd like to know whether it is possible to use IDE driver (ide-disk)
>> in polling mode, instead of using IRQ.
This should be doable, with a small amount of hacking.
Mostly, you just need to use add_timer() to set up a polling
function that simply calls ide_intr() and then does add_timer()
again for the next poll.
For your purposes, it could be as simple as five lines of C.
Cheers
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