On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 20:46 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > Do <insert random device here> really never have segment or boundary > restrictions outside of IDE? Seems to me that supporting that would be > the conservative and sane thing to do. Well the only machines that actually turn on virtual merging are sparc and parisc. They have a small list of "certified" devices for them, none of which seems to have aribtrary segment boundary restrictions (although most of them have the standard 4GB one). When I brought this up the last time it degenerated into a slanging match over the value of virtual merging (which no-one can seem to provide a definitive answer to). James - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
