From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from canuck.infradead.org (canuck.infradead.org [209.217.80.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7F4DDF90 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:36:14 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver From: David Woodhouse To: Geert Uytterhoeven In-Reply-To: <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> References: <20070615113919.142332000@pademelon.sonytel.be> <20070615120848.352093000@pademelon.sonytel.be> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:35:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: Jens Axboe , "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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