Re: Implementing NVMHCI...

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > 	  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

True...


> >    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)

Perhaps...  from what I can tell, this is a direct, asynchronous NVM 
interface.  It appears to lack any concept of bus or bus enumeration. 
No worries about link up/down, storage device hotplug, etc.  (you still 
have PCI hotplug case, of course)

	Jeff



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