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task #10079: ATA load & uncompress in parallel

Submitter:  Robert Millan <robertmh>
Submitted:  Sun 10 Jan 2010 02:34:06 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Sat 09 Jan 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sat 09 Jan 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC
Priority:  5 - Normal Status:  None
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open

Sun 10 Jan 2010 02:34:06 PM UTC, original submission:  

ATA driver should use DMA transfer mode.  In addition, we need some facility that would allow the CPU to do other tasks during a DMA transfer, such as uncompression (when a compressed file is being loaded).

A possible way to do this is to enable functions to be registered as hooks in grub_cpu_idle() (idea by Vladimir).

Note: context switching and/or interrupts must be avoided

Robert Millan <robertmh>
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  • -email is unavailable- added by nigelcunningham (Prerequisite for decent TuxOnIce (or [u]swsusp) from bootloader support.)
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