Arjan van de Ven wrote:
Hi, This patch turns on parallel scanning for the ata_piix driver. This driver is used on most netbooks (no AHCI for cheap storage it seems). The scan is the dominating time factor in the kernel boot for these devices; with this flag it gets cut in half for the device I used for testing (eeepc). Alan took a look at the driver source and concluded that it ought to be safe to do for this driver. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I tend to doubt "safe", given the complicated and buggy silicon state machine that recreates the legacy IDE interface on SATA...
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