From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove libsas PCI dependencies
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A8A1E1.3040707@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185454007.3501.34.camel@localhost.localdomain>
James Bottomley wrote:
> Realistically, even for parisc, I can't see anyone producing a non-PCI
> SAS device (even though I'd like one).
A non-PCI device embedded on an SoC or system bus is highly -likely-, IMO.
SAS+SATA silicon (w/out firmware assist as with aic94xx) is the
direction that Marvell and Broadcom have gone. I would say it's
practically inevitable that someone will embed a SAS+SATA chip eventually.
> This should become enum dma_data_direction if we're going to go the
> generic route.
Updated.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-26 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-26 8:31 libsas: pci_iommu_ops undefined on !PCI Meelis Roos
2007-07-26 9:21 ` [PATCH] Remove libsas PCI dependencies Jeff Garzik
2007-07-26 12:46 ` James Bottomley
2007-07-26 13:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-07-26 13:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Jeff Garzik
2007-07-26 17:31 ` Meelis Roos
2007-07-26 17:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-26 17:51 ` Meelis Roos
2007-07-26 18:05 ` James Bottomley
2007-07-26 13:30 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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