Hello.
Michael wrote:
I'd like to know whether it is possible to use IDE driver (ide-disk)
in polling mode, instead of using IRQ.
I generally wouldn't recommend using this mode since the ATA polling
protocol had been racy for years, WRT to the interrupt pending condition.
In case you wonder - the reason why I need this weired thing is that I
have a compact flash connected directly to the host local bus using
memory mode. It is more-or-less IDE-compatible, except that it doesn't
issue interrupts.
Ah, no interrupts at all...
The old IDE core in drivers/ide/ certainly doesn't support polling mode
and IRQ-less devices. AFAICS, libata also doesn't support the latter...
MBR, Sergei
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