From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:35:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-15 11:39 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 2 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 1/6] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 13:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 2/6] ps3: Storage Driver Core Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 3/6] PS3: Storage device registration routines Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 14:35 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-06-15 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 18:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:19 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:08 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:28 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 6:07 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-16 6:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 6:03 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 7:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:17 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:55 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 12:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 5/6] ps3: ROM " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 6/6] ps3: FLASH " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
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