Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: >As far as what I can see, here are the information I've collected >about 9.0 and i845: > >- official Linux support for the dma stuff of i845 appeared > sometime in the 2.5.something branch > >- it was hacked together in our 2.4 for 9.0 by Juan, it worked > sometime in the beta/rc period, but broke again for the final :-( > >- so the 9.0 has a very poor disk performance with i845 > (something like 2 MB instead of 40 MB) > >- we need to issue a fixed kernel about that, Juan will work on > it but now he's busy with acpi stuff (or apic, I always mix > them, thanks for the anagram), he'll do that next >
That's great news for 845 owners. Thanks. Eric
