Re: Implementing NVMHCI...

[Jeff Garzik]

JÃrn Engel wrote:
> But like it or not, the market seems to be moving in that direction.
> Which means we will have "block devices" that have all the interfaces of
> disks and behave much like flash - modulo the crap FTL.


One driving goal behind NVMHCI was to avoid disk-originated interfaces, 
because they are not as well suited to flash storage.

The NVMHCI command set (distinguished from NVMHCI, the silicon) is 
specifically targetted towards flash.

	Jeff


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