From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Accessing Ram on PCI card
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 17:06:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150604080641.GA15786@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEMktPXvELQhYz3PamWYwGqei3-c_A3ePcdsCFgWpkjjEOWKJQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 12:44:34PM +0530, Robert Clove wrote:
> Actually it is a PCI based NIC card having a NIC port and some RAM on it.
A NIC card is not designed to hold a filesystem. If you wish to change
this, you are going to have to write a kernel driver that talks to that
card and exposes a block interface to userspace.
Best of luck!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-04 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-01 17:25 Accessing Ram on PCI card Robert Clove
2015-06-02 1:29 ` Greg KH
2015-06-03 14:57 ` Robert Clove
2015-06-04 6:10 ` Greg KH
2015-06-04 7:14 ` Robert Clove
2015-06-04 8:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-06-04 12:47 ` Robert Clove
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