[haiku-development] Re: ATA vs. IDE resolved?
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:10:00 +0200 CEST
Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To me personally it seems that ATA should be the default because that
> is what it will be anyway. I hope that we can have a middle way by
> making sure both the stacks can be in the kernel, and that using the
> boot menu people can choose to use the IDE.
>
> Of course I know little about the internal technicalities, but I
> guess
> it would be impossible to have this be configurable by a kernel
> settings file since you probably need ata/ide to get this file.
> However, perhaps we can gather information during the coming weeks to
> build in some automated guesswork based on what hardware we know is
> working.
>
> Would that be implementable?
Sure, but that would really be a waste of time (as it's going to be
thrown away, and also would require quite some hacks), and likely is
more effort than to just fix the issues we have :-)
Bye,
Axel.
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