Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755067AbXFOOgh (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:36:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754819AbXFOOgZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:36:25 -0400 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([209.217.80.40]:34726 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754792AbXFOOgY (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:36:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver From: David Woodhouse To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Geoff Levand In-Reply-To: <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> References: <20070615113919.142332000@pademelon.sonytel.be> <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:35:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-17.fc7.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 18 On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 13:39 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3: > - Implemented as a block device driver with a dynamic major > - Disk names (and partitions) are of the format ps3d%c(%u) > - Uses software scatter-gather with a 64 KiB bounce buffer as the hypervisor > doesn't support scatter-gather Any particular reason why this is done as a separate block device driver rather than as SCSI? -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/