linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:35:59 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@...sony.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

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

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