From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760180AbaCUPWa (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:22:30 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f45.google.com ([209.85.160.45]:41831 "EHLO mail-pb0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753331AbaCUPW2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:22:28 -0400 Message-ID: <532C5930.7040107@bjorling.me> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:22:24 -0700 From: Matias Bjorling User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: device-mapper development , snitzer@redhat.com, agk@redhat.com, neilb@suse.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction References: <1395383538-18019-1-git-send-email-m@bjorling.me> <20140321090630.GA30044@debian> In-Reply-To: <20140321090630.GA30044@debian> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/21/2014 02:06 AM, Joe Thornber wrote: > Hi Matias, > > 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 will be easier for the custom SSD vendor's to jump on board with their own firmware. - Matias > > - Joe > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:32:17PM -0700, Matias Bjørling wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Users that have custom firmware SSDs, may choose to expose their flash directly. >> This allows the host to control logical to physical address mappings, garbage >> collection strategy, wear-leveling, and so on.