Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757862AbZDKTdx (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:33:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755098AbZDKTdn (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:33:43 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:39322 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753930AbZDKTdn (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:33:43 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:32:46 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux IDE mailing list , LKML , Jens Axboe , Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI... Message-ID: <20090411203246.513a0892@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <49E0D47B.9070205@garzik.org> References: <49E0D47B.9070205@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 24 > The spec describes the sector size as > "512, 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, etc." It will be interesting to reach > "etc" territory. Over 4K will be fun. > - ahci.c becomes a tiny stub with a pci_device_id match table, > calling functions in libahci.c. It needs to a be a little bit bigger because of the folks wanting to do non PCI AHCI, so you need a little bit of PCI wrapping etc > With a brand new command set, might as well avoid SCSI completely IMO, > and create a brand new block device. Providing we allow for the (inevitable ;)) joys of NVHCI over SAS etc 8) Alan -- 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/