Hello.
Alan Cox wrote:
- Full SATA and NCQ aware platform support.
I don't see how SATA/NCQ support is connected to SCSI.
Because the chunks of scsi midlayer we inherit (actually nowdays mostly
block) are the pieces you need anyway to do multiple command queues,
Er, what does this term mean? Several queues per device or a tagged
queue?
error recovery from multiple pending commands, barriers and all the other
nasty sequencing and recovery stuff.
So, you're just presenting SCSI emulation as a "lesser evil". But 5
years seems a long enough term to unbind all that stuff from SCSI.
directly into SoC's own GPIO, not an expander) -- which requires the
drivers to call the platform code hooks. :-(
Embedded system design in my experience primarily consists of shooting
yourself and the programmer in the foot simultaenously with automatic
weapons while attempting to save 2 cents/unit
Some h/w designers and programmers do indeed deserve to be shot. :-D
Alan
MBR, Sergei
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