From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matias Bjorling Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:22:24 -0700 Message-ID: <532C5930.7040107@bjorling.me> References: <1395383538-18019-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me> <20140321090630.GA30044@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: device-mapper development , snitzer@redhat.com, agk@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140321090630.GA30044@debian> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 03/21/2014 02:06 AM, Joe Thornber wrote: > Hi Matias, >=20 > This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you > have any recommendations for what hardware I should pick up? Hi Joe, The most easily available platform is OpenSSD (http://www.openssd-project.org). It's a little old, but still very functional. When there's a good firmware implementation, I think it wil= l be easier for the custom SSD vendor's to jump on board with their own firmware. - Matias >=20 > - Joe >=20 >=20 > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:32:17PM -0700, Matias Bj=F8rling wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Users that have custom firmware SSDs, may choose to expose their fla= sh directly. >> This allows the host to control logical to physical address mappings= , garbage >> collection strategy, wear-leveling, and so on.