On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:52:26PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >.. > >2) This chip includes target mode support. Very nice, well done! > >I hope that standard AHCI eventually supports this nice feature! > .. > > Speaking of which. Do we have a strategy as to how to implement/support > the target side of target mode on controllers which can do it? > > The Marvell chips also have a target mode feature, and I'd like to add > support for it soon-ish, but it's now clear how you would like it plumbed > into libata. > > It's almost like a separate driver/subsystem, except that would be very > silly. I'm letting the SCSI folks do the heavy lifting, implementing SCSI target mode -- an effort already quite well along. We should be able to piggyback off of that work. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
